Regional Artist Showcase: John Dyas Pottery
FREE
No Ticket Required
Visit us at the Museum Store for our first regional showcase of the year with John Dyas Pottery! Watch Dyas perform a live demonstration of casting pottery on the wheel, and browse his ceramic collection.
Dyas is a ceramic artist and educator working in decorative and crystalline glazed porcelain. His work creates crystalline glazed porcelain pottery, driven by his fascination with glaze chemistry and the ways science, nature, and art converge through fire.
This ongoing artist program invites local artists into the museum one weekend each month to engage visitors through live demonstrations, talks, and hands-on workshops hosted in the museum store.
Free, no tickets required. Drop-in anytime from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
John Dyas
JOHN DYAS (he/him/his) is one of a small number of U.S. potters developing zinc crystalline glazes on decorative porcelain. After earning a BFA in Ceramics, John began his pottery career during the craft and studio pottery heyday of the 1970s. His work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the Midwest and Southwest, and he has taught numerous workshops focused on crystalline glaze techniques.
Early work at the potter’s wheel unexpectedly led John into a 35-year career in missions and ministry. He has since returned to his pottery and crystalline roots with renewed vision, deepened life experience, and a passion for the possibilities that new technologies bring to contemporary ceramics.
