Doug Herren

BIO

I knew from very early on that I wanted to work in the arts. I don’t expect to make much money from my work; just enough to have a studio space and time to make the art first and foremost: if my day job can be related to this work, so much for the better. I do my best to teach students in basic hand building and throwing techniques and to encourage them as much as I can. I know how much things can stack against them. It is their own continuing interest that they will have to rely on to keep 

making art.

Working in ceramics was something I discovered in college. Watching my first instructor throwing pottery on the wheel was mesmerizing and something I just had to learn how to do. So my original aspirations to pursue graphic design gave way to ceramics…and all along I really wanted to be a fine arts major anyhow. Over the next few years, I

earned both my B.F.A. and M.F.A. in ceramics, and continued on to residencies, one at the Archie Bray for two years and a second one at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. At these residencies, I shifted from making functional pottery to developing my current sculptural style. I have sold work since my undergraduate days but I have never relied on these sales completely. Teaching has been my main income since leaving graduate school and currently I am an adjunct professor at two area universities. 

Doug Herren

Excerpt from Ceramic Arts Network Daily , Jennifer Harnetty Editor

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