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Carolyn Edlund owned a production studio for over twenty years, creating ceramic jewelry which she sold retail and also wholesale to hundreds of galleries and stores. Today she is an art business consultant, the founder of ArtsyShark.com and the Executive Director of The Arts Business Institute. She speaks at workshops throughout the country and writes extensively on the business of art.Continue reading
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Peter Pincus is a ceramic artist and instructor, making brightly colored vessels in his home studio in Penfield, NY. He received both his BFA (in 2005) and MFA (in 2011) from Alfred University. Peter exhibits his work locally, regionally, and nationally. His work can be found in numerous private and public collection as well as published in Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated. Continue reading
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Patricia Griffin is the second of four children. She grew up riding horses, raising 4-H animals, building fence and, as teenager, working various jobs in the family’s newspaper and printing business. Hard work and leadership were encouraged. Creativity was the norm: Patricia’s grandmother was an artist and writer, her dad was a writer and all of Patricia’s siblings grew up to be musicians, writers, printers and makers.
While running a successful public relations and design firm, Patrica needed a break from the hard paced fulfilling clients needs, she took a clay class as a distraction. Patricia just never left the clay behind. She has been working in clay for 17 years now. For the past seven, Patricia has been living and working in Cambria, CA, an artist colony on the central coast. Her studio is a converted one-room
schoolhouse on the town’s main street. There, she welcomes visitors, shares her processes and talks about pots. Patricia claims it to be paradise.
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Will Donovan is living in Greenville SC, a recent grad from North Greenville University with a studio art major in sculpture and ceramics. Will creates functional work that is intended for every day use by ordinary people. The intention behind his work is to draw a parallel between the one function that brings fulfillment regarding both humans and pots; Serving.
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It all started in Jr. High art class in The Dalles, Oregon. Ms. Orr introduced James DeRosso to clay and it’s been a part of his life ever since. James received his college degree in Graphic Design, but had spent a great deal of his art electives in the ceramic studio. After college, James started working in advertising, but ceramics is what he would be doing at night on his own time. A ceramics 
commission job forced James to step away from his advertising job and start up a professional ceramic studio.
The specific niche of creating monsters all began when James would make small guardian creatures that he placed on top of the kiln to ward off bad results during firings. Friends wanted those creatures more than what were coming out of the kiln. James is enjoying the whole monster making niche and the kind of people that are attracted to it. James has now been making and teaching ceramics for over 20 years.
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Jennifer discovered ceramics while in college, and has pursued it via an apprenticeship with her former professor after graduation from Defiance College in 2009. Since her apprenticeship ended, she has continued to work as part of a group at Four Corners Studio, Gallery and Pottery in Angola, Indiana. Her focus is on functional work with clean lines, 
beautiful proportions and eye-catching glazes. She believes that attention to detail and form is the key to producing functional ceramic pieces that are not only beautiful, but work
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Brian R. Jones grew up in Syracuse, NY and is now an artist living and working in Portland, OR. He has been a resident artist at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME and The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA. He has earned degrees from The New York 
State College of Ceramics (BFA) and Southern Methodist University (MFA). He was a presenter at the Utilitarian Clay VI: Celebrate the Object at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in September 2012. In 2013, Jones was selected as an Emerging Artist by the National Council on the Education in the Ceramic Arts.Continue reading
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When asked when and where a person fell in love with pottery, many potters point back to a class in high school. So I thought it would be fun to go back to the roots and interview some potters that were still in that early stage of life and clay. I gathered together a couple high school students to talk about their love of clay.
Lindsey Reardon is a recent high school graduate that loves clay. Her dream is to become a doctor and keep her love as clay as a lifelong hobby.
Austen Sewell is a recent high school graduate that loves clay. His plan is to go to college and major in art and clay.
A plate by Lindsey
A Bowl by Austen
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Shino Takeda grew up on Kyushu island in southern Japan. Kyushu has a rich history of ceramics and arts. Shino’s mother admired and collected both. When Shino was a child her family would travel all around Japan to look at different art shows and visit ceramic artists studios. Shino’s work is an appropriation of those more traditional Japanese art forms mixed with all the freshness of today’s New York City
All Shino’s work is hand-build and one of a kind that is searching for perfect imperfection, tracing memories, and making a story that connects the old to the new.Continue reading
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Justin Rothshank on his plate!
Justin Rothshank is a studio ceramic artist working in Goshen, Indiana. His ceramic work has been exhibited and published internationally, including articles in Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, Studio Potter, The Log Book, and Neue Keramik. He has been a presenter, panelist, visiting artist, and artist-in-residence at numerous universities, schools, conferences, and art centers throughout the United States and abroad. Justin was presented with an Award of Excellence by the American Craft Council in February 2009.
This is part of his $10,000 set.
In 2007 he was recognized by Ceramics Monthly Magazine as an Emerging Artist. He has also been awarded an Alcoa Foundation Leadership Grant for Arts Managers, a 2007 Work of Art Award from Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, the 2005 Decade of Servant Leadership Award from Goshen College, and was named to Pittsburgh Magazine’s 40 under 40 in 2005.Continue reading