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Lisa Buck

Lisa Buck’s red earthenware pots show the influence of her explorations in clay at home and abroad. The Afton, MN potter holds a degree in Art Education and Ceramics from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and has pursued further study at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. She received a grant to look at regional contemporary and historic pottery in La Borne, France and did self-directed work with North African pottery in Morocco, where she lived for two years. She has served as a studio assistant to Warren MacKenzie and counts Linda Christianson as a mentor.

Lisa uses a combination of wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques to produce her pieces, which often feature fanciful feet, handles and textural embellishments. An interplay of glazed and unglazed areas is characteristic of her work, which is fired in an electric kiln. Lisa’s pots are built to be used and are oven, dishwasher and microwave safe.

Lisa’s work has been exhibited in galleries nationwide, and she was a 2003 recipient of the Jerome Foundation Project Grant for Emerging Artists. When not in the studio, she teaches ceramics at Mounds Park Academy in St. Paul.

“I like to make pots like Gillian Welch sings songs,” says the artist, “slow-paced, simply formed, honest – inspired by old traditions, but with a fresh interpretation.”