Joan Dow styve POTTERY
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Functional Stoneware fired to Cone 6

 
Teapot - Alberta Blue & Chalky White
Cup - Mt. St. Helena's Glaze      		  
Thumb-print Cup - Alberta Brown & Golden Brown
 
Thumb-print Cup - Alberta Blue & Chalky White
Bowl & Cup - Chalky White & Black Stain 		  
Recipe Box - Alberta Brown & Golden Brown
 
Vase - Alberta Brown & Golden Brown
Bowls - Alberta Blue & Chalky White 		  
Vase - Alberta Brown & Golden Brown

Small Pots - Alberta Brown & Golden Brown with Wax Resist Design 		    
Bio.
Took my first pottery class from Warren McKenzie at the University of Minnesota in my senior year.  Then in 1970, when living in Concord, California, I signed up for pottery classes through the City of Concord Community Education Program at the Concord Ceramic Studio..  I took four sessions with instructor Mel Simpson.  The studio included a number of types of wheels, supplies to mix glazes and a gas-fired kiln.  They were doing things right!  This was during the time of Watergate; one of the glazes was called Tricky Dicky!  I started my studio at home with a kick wheel and brought my pots into the class to be glazed and fired.  1973-1974.

From California we moved to Denver, Colorado, where I took one series of classes and also took my work into the class studio, Clay Center Colorado, to be glazed and fired.

We moved to the Washington D.C. area where I added an electric wheel and an electric kiln to my home studio.  At this point I started mixing my own glazes.  While in that area I went to a number of work shops put on by Eagle Ceramics, the American Hand Gallery in Georgetown and Columbia College in Rockville, Maryland.  1976-1979.

I then ended up in Albuquerque, New Mexico where I was asked to be part of a co-op art gallery, The Pinion Tree, in Old Town.  The gallery included two other potters and a much larger number of artists doing oils, acrylics and pastels and weaving.  I was on the Standards Committee which was responsible for changing the displays and for coordinating the monthly open houses which featured a different co-op member each month.  During that time I worked as a volunteer at Eisenhower Middle School providing  the class instruction when the art classes came to their pottery section.  I also attended a lecture and presentation at Abiquiqu, New Mexico that was put on by the New Mexico Potters Association.  Oddly enough I was buying my supplies in Santa Fe from a ceramics supplier who was getting his clay and chemicals from Minnesota, so the boxes were labeled Minnesota Clay.  1980-1983.

After moving to the Twin Cities I continued throwing pots while working and going to school for a business degree.  The Bibelot Shop carried my work for a number of years.  Because of family obligations and my day job I eventually and gradually reduced my throwing.  And then in the mid 2000s my studio space was needed for family sleeping space.

In 2011 I was able to re-establish my studio.  It has always been my plan to continue throwing pots well into my retirement years, when that time starts.