Inland Northwest Ceramics and the Archie Bray Connection | David Shaner (Uncommon Gifts)

Uncommon Gifts

Inland Northwest Ceramics and the Archie Bray Connection : David Shaner

(1934-2002)

"The bowl?  Well, the bowl is the act of containing something.  It can be as simple as cupped hands.  I never said this to anybody, but I always thought of my mother when I made a bowl."

Oral history interview with David Shaner, 2001
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

  • Longest acting Director, Archie Bray Foundation, 1964-1970
  • With Ken Ferguson (who taught him to throw clay) built the first soft-brick kiln at Archie Bray Foundation