Instructor: Mark Shapiro
Monday - Friday
August 11 - 15
9am - 1pm
5 sessions

Open Studio: Mon - Thurs, 1pm - 4pm

We will think together about pots that call out to us, the ones that we reach for with pleasure again and again. How do they feel in your hands? What do you love about them? How could the ones we are making have that kind of emotional power? The focus will be on the wheel but hand-building is welcome. Experience preferred. Please bring a pot that inspires you. 

Mark has taught numerous workshops nationally and internationally and mentored many apprentices at his Stonepool Pottery. He edited A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes (UNCP 2010) and has published many articles. A 2019 Smithsonian Artist Resident Fellow and 2021 Craft Research Fund recipient, he co-curated Crafting Freedom: The Life and Legacy of Black Potter Thomas W. Commeraw at the New-York Historical Society (2023). He is on the board of the American Ceramic Circle and an advisor to Studio Potter and Ceramics in America. He is currently a National Museum of American History Research Associate.

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