Clovy Haruko Tsuchiya

In high school, I took my first art class that included a session on the pottery wheel, and I fell in love with it. I moved on to Berea College, where I got a work study position as an apprentice in their Student Crafts Program and threw production pottery for ten hours a week. I went on to major in Studio Art with a Ceramics focus, learning more complex techniques and art theory and history, under the mentorship of Professor Tina Gebhart. After graduating in 2012, I moved out to the Pacific Northwest to work for several years in ceramic manufacturing, where I learned business skills and developed my body of work. I began selling my own work at Farmer’s Markets and local shows as Clovy T. Pottery, and decided to stay on Whidbey Island. I now have a home studio, and in 2018 I built my own soda kiln. I divide my time between studio work, teaching, working part time at Briggs Shore Ceramics, and spoiling my cats, Harriet and Dulcinea.