Ohio Designer Craftsmen
Fine art & craft, art exhibitions, education and more
Company: Brush Creek Pottery
Archbold, OH
www.Brush-creek-pottery-mark-nafziger.square.site
Mark established Brush Creek Pottery at Sauder Village, a living history museum in Archbold, Ohio, in 1981. For over 35 years, he has worked to combine fine design, form and function to create high fired stoneware and porcelain that is an inspiration to see and use.
Artist: Rebecca Sigler
Mt. Vernon, OH
Rebecca enjoys creating whimsical ceramic artwork from her home studio in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Her company is named in honor of her Grandmother who inspired her love of mice. She teaches ceramic handbuilding to children and adults.
Columbus, OH
Julie holds a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design, and has worked as an illustrator and art instructor. Her functional ceramics are primarily wheel thrown and fired in an electric kiln. She uses stamps, oxides, underglazes and glazes to enhance the surfaces of her work.
Fredericktown, OH
Paul is a central Ohio teacher and ceramic artist. He makes highly decorative, functional ceramics. His pottery has been exhibited across the United States and featured in both Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated.
Columbus, OH
Megs attended CCAD in Columbus, Ohio, to pursue fashion design, but fate brought her to the ceramics lab where she found her love for clay. For the past few years she has been producing and developing the Botanical Collection, which uses traditional handbuilding techniques. Her surface treatment is terra sigillata with a mixture of sgraffito and mishima, and multiple glaze layers.
Columbus, OH
www.quinnhannahandcraftedpottery.square.site
Quinn is currently pursuing a bachelor’s in fine arts at Ohio University and will teach ceramics after graduation. She has been making ceramics since High School.
Company: Potted by Jess
Hilliard, OH
Jess from Jessica Marie Ceramics has been practicing pottery since 2013. After graduating with her BFA from Brigham Young University-Idaho in 2017 she moved to the Bay area California to teach pottery and work on building her business. In 2019 her husband and her left the bay area and moved to Columbus, Ohio where they currently reside with their daughter, and three dogs. Today Jess works full time as a potter, along side her employees, and sells her work online, at markets, and in various shops and galleries around the country.
Elburn, IL
Carol creates works celebrating the natural world, as well as objects for utility, pleasure and symbolic meaning. Her goal is to combine the beauty of the natural world with objects that serve.