Jeff Oestreich
A full-time studio potter in Minnesota, Jeff Oestreich apprenticed at the Leach Pottery in St. Ives, England, soon after college. His work has been shown in numerous galleries and museums, including the American Craft Museum, the Fuller Craft Museum, and AKAR Gallery in Iowa. He has presented workshops across the country and abroad; most recently, he taught a series of workshops throughout South Africa before selecting awards for the 2010 “National Ceramics Exhibition” in Cape Town.
Bill Hunt
The former editor of Ceramics Monthly magazine, Bill Hunt is currently a studio potter and professor of ceramics at Columbus College of Art and Design. His work has been shown at in Canton Museum of Art, the Meyer Breier Weiss Gallery in San Francisco, and Nagai Gallery, Tokyo. He has presented workshops on topics ranging from studio production to business success. He will be throwing large forms and constructing a simple tilemaker.
Gail Kendall
Nebraska artist Gail Kendall creates highly decorative, functional terra cotta. Recently retired from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln after 24 years of teaching ceramics, Kendall has been a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine, and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. Gail will demonstrate slab and coil buiding techniques and the use of bisque molds.
