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Gail Hustedde is a Portland, Oregon, ceramic artist making utilitarian and sculptural pots in both porcelain and stoneware. The making of her work utilizes various techniques, including wheel throwing, slab construction, and slip casting. She has spent 40 years as a studio potter and ceramic instructor for community and college programs. She received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Idaho in 1981. After graduate school she lived in the Pacific Northwest until 2005 when she moved to Savannah, Georgia and later, Sarasota, Florida. She returned to the Northwest in 2017 and is enjoying the landscape and rainy weather of the Pacific Northwest.
“I’ve been intrigued by the responsiveness of clay since my first pottery class at Blackburn College forty years ago. The art of creating with the raw materials and the science of making glazes and firing kilns are equally engaging for me.
In addition to the rich history of vessel-making, my claywork is influenced by architecture, industrial design, and patterns in nature.
Working in high-fire stoneware and porcelain, I use the potter’s wheel and hand building techniques to create utilitarian and sculptural pots. Many of my pieces are slab-constructed using embossed tiles and paper templates.
When firing my work, I look for glazes that either soften or reveal the embossed patterns, creating a rich, quiet surface that completes the process.”
