It was early on when Terry Gess knew he wanted to create things with his hands– and all it took was meeting a potter.
“He found his outlet when he started taking classes with a potter in Milwaukee. Since that time, he’s studied and been awarded residencies across the world, shared his approach to ceramics at workshops and lectures, and become a member of the creative community around the Penland School of Craft.” (From BlueRidgeHeritage.com)
“Over the years of steadily making, decorating, and firing pots, something distinctively myself has slipped into the process. It’s a sensibility as intangible and basic to me as the way in which I hold the salt shaker when I tilt it to pour, how I turn the pages of a book, or how I kick my potter’s wheel.”
ToeRiverArts.Org
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