LION POTTER - Key Persons

I met pottery at Sandy Spring Friends School in Sandy Spring, MD during high school when I came to the United States at age seventeen from Tokyo, Japan. I became an apprentice at Greenbridge Pottery in Dayton, MD working primarily in the gallery during high school. At Western Maryland College, now known as McDaniel College, in Westminster, MD, I explored life venues, but ultimately returned to art as a graphic design major. I studied ceramics under Ken Hankins, and did an independent study on raku with David Warfield. After college, I worked as a graphic designer at a sign shop, but continued at Greenbridge Pottery apprenticing in the studio for David Young. I then returned to Japan and enrolled in Seto Yogyo Kunrenkoh, ceramics training school, in Aichi, Japan for one year. During our courtship, I traveled kiln sites with David throughout Japan. After we were married I returned to Greenbridge Pottery as the third potter under Rebecca Moy and David. I taught with him at the Jewish Community Center in Rockville, MD, then went to assist him as the artist in residence at my alma mater, Sandy Spring Friends School. We are excited to have opened our studio/gallery as The Lion Potter of Gettysburg in the summer of 2005 offering handcrafted art as well as hand-picked local produce to our community.