Stephen Driver wood fired pots

Stephen Driver

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2007 NCECA woodfired pre-conference workshop: by Stephen Driver, Ron Meyers, Chuck Hindes, and Rand Heazlitt

Caviar Serving Dish #4 and Rope pattern Shino Teapot w/Wisteria handle

Wood Fired Stoneware

Summer of 2006

Welcome to this website

I have been making pots professionally since 1973. In 1979 I started Mulberry Creek Pottery in the Boston Mountains of Northwest Arkansas. Prior to that I worked for John and Glen la Rowe at Mark of the Potter just north of Clarkesville, Georgia and spent 10 months in England where I worked for and studied under Michael Leach and Peter Bruce Dick. At Peter's studio I learned how to make slip trailed wood fired earthenware.

From 1979 until 1986 I did production work and supported myself solely from the sale of my work. In 1986 I decided to go back to school and was accepted to the MFA program and studied under Ron Meyers at the University of Georgia. At about his time I also shifted my focus from prodcution mid range stoneware to wood fired - salt glazed work. Graduating in 1988 I shifted to to a combination pottery making/teaching mode, working half my time teaching art and and the other half making pots. In the fall of 1993 I accepted a job teaching full time at Brescia University in Owensboro, Kentucky, a position I continue to hold today. If you want to know more about me, you can go to my resume page for more information or contact me.