Linda christianson ceramics
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Working Potters Series: Linda Christianson Shares the Tale of her Adventurous Life in Pottery Linda Christianson
We all know that making a living at pottery is incredibly challenging. If you are not a determined, hard worker, you might as well leave your pottery tools at the door.
For potter Linda Christianson, making pottery wasn't a career, but more of a requirement that the rest of her life would just have to adjust to. In today's post, Linda shares how she did whatever it would take to make her life with pottery possible. From setting up a self service pottery shop at the end of her driveway, to living in a rent-free farmhouse with no heat or electricity (in Minnesota!), Linda shares how her determination and hard work lead her to the successful way of life she has today. - Jennifer Poellot Harnetty, editor
The Time It Takes
Years as a professional potter: 35
Number of pots made in a year:
Making work (including firing): 60%
Promotions/Selling: 15%
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BIO
Having made pots now for about 40 years, I am surprised that it is still both a hopeful and troublesome effort to make a decent pot. The qualities that I search for in my work are fairly straight forward yet elusive. I am interested in a pot that does its duty well yet can stand on its own as a visual object. Woodfiring offers the forms a quiet surface that hopefully retains the essence of the clay itself. These pots are not sculpture; they seem to act more like engaging tools than anything else.
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Linda Christianson is an independent studio potter who lives and works in rural Minnesota. She studied at Hamline University (St Paul, Minnesota), and the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts (Banff, Alberta, Canada). She exhibits nationally and internationally, including one person exhibits in London and St. Louis. Her pieces are in numerous public and private collections, including the American Museum of Ceramic Art and the Glenboe Museum. An itinerate educator, Linda has taugh
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Linda ChristiansonLindstrom, Minnesota
Biography
Linda Christianson is an independent studio potter who lives and works in rural Minnesota. She studied at Hamline University (St Paul, Minnesota), and the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts (Banff, Alberta, Canada). She exhibits nationally and internationally, including one-person exhibits in London and St. Louis. Her pieces are in numerous public and private collections, including the American Museum of Ceramic Art and the Glenboe Museum. An itinerant educator, Linda has taught at colleges and universities, including Carleton College and the Hartford Art School. She received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the McKnight Foundation. Her recent writing appeared in Studio Potter and The Log Book. One of her goals fryst vatten to man a better cup each day.
Statement
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