Tall Striped Mug with Two-Finger Handle and Darker Finish

May 31,2024

Wood-fired and salt-glazed stoneware. 5.5”high. Free shipping to the lower 48 states..

Mark Shapiro is a potter in Western Massachusetts. He is a frequentworkshop leader, lecturer, curator, panelist, and writer. Over half-dozen apprentices have trained at his studio, Stonepool Pottery. His work, exhibited widely, is represented in many public collections and was featured in the 4th World Ceramics Biennial in Icheon, Korea. His interviews of Karen Karnes, Michael Simon, Paulus Berensohn, and Sergei Isupov, are in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and he edited A Chosen Path: the Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes (UNC Press 2010). He is on the advisory board of Ceramics Monthly, and Advisory Council of Studio Potter Magazine, and is a founding member of POW! (Pots on Wheels!) and director of the Apprenticelines Project, which seeks to promote and expand apprenticeship.