Visiting Artist: Rod Haaland
Rod has been making pottery since the 1970's. He is also a degreed ceramic engineer who leads a research team for a ceramic manufacturing plant in Morristown, TN. Rod creates his own glazes, many from local materials. His focus is on wheel-thrown form, sometimes altered and combined with a foundation in utilitarian ware. Rod has worked in collaboration with local businesses as well as with members of his own creative family forming a line of illustrated pottery.
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