Paulus Berensohn is a self-described "amateur visual and craft artist, passionate deep ecologist, and professional fairy godfather." His book, Finding One's Way with Clay, in print for 32 years, is considered an "essential classic" by professional clay artists, art therapists, and persons seeking seeds for their creative cultivation. Early on, Berensohn made the decision not to sell or exhibit what he made, but to share the journeys of creation and the process of expression with others. For more than forty years Berensohn has offered hands-on workshops at colleges and university art departments, art centers, and other venues, nationally and internationally, including the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina where he currently resides.
Kathryn Finnerty is a studio potter living and working in Pleasant Hill, Oregon. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, she studied ceramics at the George Brown College of Applied Arts and Sheridan College of Applied Arts. She earned her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design in 1989, and received her MFA from Louisiana State University in 1993. In 2000, Finnerty and her husband, Tom Rohr, also a potter, moved to Oregon to build Pleasant Hill Pottery and focus on the practice of making pots. The inspiration for her mostly hand-built work is derived from highly ornamental 19th century English pottery. Currently Finnerty's work is exhibited in numerous galleries across the US and Canada, and has been published in a number of books and magazines.
Hiroki Morinoue is a native of Holualoa, Hawaii, and holds a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the California College of Arts and Crafts. He has worked successfully in a variety of media including mixed media paintings, printmaking, ceramics, photography, and sculpture. He has long been a patient observer of the rhythms, cycles and patterns of nature. Morinoue has shown his work in galleries across the mainland and Japan. His work is included in several museum collections and public venues. Morinoue is cofounder and artistic director of Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture, a non-profit organization that has offered art education and cultural activities since 1994.
Jeanne Quinn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Quinn creates objects which are seemingly familiar, but displays them in a manner which abstracts the work formally and promotes ideas about gender, the structure of language and communication, the history of objects made for specific use, and autobiographical narrative. She received her undergraduate degree in art history from Oberlin College and her MFA in ceramics from the University of Washington. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is included in several books, including The Artful Teapot, by Garth Clark; Postmodern Ceramics, by Mark Del Vecchio; Sex Pots, by Paul Matthieu; and A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence, by Peter Held.
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