Visiting Artist Lecture: Stephen Driver

Please join the School of Design for a lecture by visiting ceramic artist Stephen Driver in Room 103 of the F. Jay Taylor Visual Arts Center. Stephen Driver has been making wood-fired functional pottery and sculpture in the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas since the late 1970s. Steve started his professional career working for John and Glen LaRowe at Mark of the Potter near Clarkesville, Georgia in 1973. In 1975 he spent a year apprenticing in England, working for two distinguished potters; Michael Leach, son of Bernard Leach, and Peter Bruce Dick. Stephen received his MFA at the University of Georgia under Ron Meyers. Stephen was Professor of Art at Brescia University and taught ceramics at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In 2017 he was an Artist in Residence at Lanzhou City University in Lanzhou, China. Stephen’s work is in private and public collections, most notably the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Art. His work has published in a variety of magazines, journals and books includingThe Log Book, Ceramics Monthly and Studio Potter. For more info: http://littlemulberrygallery.com/about-us/