Barb Piper

Since my childhood days when I searched for hunks of clay on the Lake Michigan shoreline, to my formal studies of ceramics in college and graduate school, I have always been fascinated with clay.  I love its plasticity, its forgiving nature and unforgiving nature, its response to human touch, gravity, and centrifugal force.  My work is an exploration of all of these as well as my interest in clay vessel making for functional use and as a means of visual expression.