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A studio potter is one who is a modern artist or artisan, who either works alone or in a small group, producing unique items of pottery in small quantities, typically with all stages of manufacture carried out by themselves. [1] Studio pottery includes functional wares such as tableware, cookware and non-functional wares such as sculpture ...
John Mason (March 30, 1927 – January 20, 2019) was an American artist who did experimental work with ceramics. [1] Mason's work focused on exploring the physical properties of clay and its "extreme plasticity". [2]
Jun Kaneko (金子 潤, Kaneko Jun, born 1942) is a Japanese-born American ceramic artist known for creating large scale ceramic sculpture. [2] Based out of a studio warehouse in Omaha, Nebraska , Kaneko primarily works in clay to explore the effects of repeated abstract surface motifs by using ceramic glaze .
Kenneth Price (February 16, 1935 – February 24, 2012) was an American artist who predominantly created ceramic sculpture. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute and Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design) in Los Angeles, before receiving his BFA degree from the University of Southern California in 1956.
Ron Meyers (born 1934) is an American studio potter and ceramics teacher known for producing functional pottery featuring animal and human forms. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His work is featured in numerous museums and notable collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum , [ 4 ] the Georgia Museum of Art , [ 5 ] and the Rosenfield Collection, [ 6 ...
Paul Edmund Soldner (April 24, 1921 – January 3, 2011) was an American ceramic artist and educator, noted for his experimentation with the 16th-century Japanese technique called raku, introducing new methods of firing and post firing, which became known as American Raku. [1]
As a result of his innovations, technical prowess and vision, Staffel is widely considered to be one of the most significant American ceramic artists working in the latter half of the 20th century. Noted historian Garth Clark called Staffel "one of the most original vessel makers in American ceramics."
Mary Louise McLaughlin (September 29, 1847 – January 19, 1939) was an American ceramic painter and studio potter from Cincinnati, Ohio, and the main local competitor of Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, who founded Rookwood Pottery. Like Storer, McLaughlin was one of the originators of the art pottery movement that swept the United States.