Jack Troy and Hamish Jackson Talk

Talk

Sunday 22nd September 2024.

3pm with a food break in between talks

Enrollment date: Now

About Jack Troy

Jack Troy is a potter, teacher, and writer, from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where he taught at Juniata College for 39 years. He has taught more than 260 workshops in the U. S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Great Britain, and other countries, and has worked at the Institute of Ceramic Studies, Jingdezhen, China; he was an Invited Artist at Japan’s Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park. His education in ceramics has included trips to 26 countries. Having published over 100 articles in ceramics publications, he also wrote Salt Glazed Ceramics, Wood Fired Stoneware and Porcelain, as well as Calling the Planet Home, and Giving it up to the Wind [poems]. His work has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous collections, public and private, including the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery, Auckland (NZ) Museum of Art, Kalamazoo (Michigan) Institute of Art and Alfred University. He received the 2012 NCECA (National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts) Excellence in Teaching Award, and gave the closing talk, “Anecdotal Evidence,” (accessible on You Tube) at the 49th NCECA conference in Providence, Rhode Island, in 2015, and was accorded Watershed’s “Legend” status with Paula Winokur and Wayne Higby in 2017. 2022 is Jack’s 60th year as a potter.

About Hamish Jackson

Hamish's potting started at Winchcombe Pottery in the Cotswolds, England, in 2012 (just three miles from Stanton, the lovely village where his grandparents lived). Winchcombe Pottery is steeped in history. It was taken over by Michael Cardew in the 1920s and remains a studio pottery today. Working there, he got a taste for production pottery. 

In 2015, him and his wife, Lauren, moved to Pittsboro, North Carolina so he could apprentice with Mark Hewitt. He spent four years apprenticing with him.After his apprenticeship, in 2018, he worked in potteries in England and Thailand. In 2019, he did a residency at the Shigaraki Cultural Park in Japan, and followed this with a residency at the North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove, North Carolina.

Over the past few years, he has become more and more interested in using local wild materials in his craft. This begins with the clay. In North Carolina, he began mixing my own clay and also experimenting with local rocks to make glazes.

In 2020, he began the MFA program in ceramics at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. Over three years there, he studied glaze chemistry using local materials. He took geology classes, which helped him focus his research. His thesis show was titled “Tea time with the Devil”; it showcased four glazes made primarily with one local granite from Devil’s Playground in northwestern Utah.In the summer of 2023, he began working at Pleasant Hill Pottery, near Eugene, Oregon, as artist in residence.

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