The Saint John’s Pottery

Presentation given at the annual conference for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts in 2019 held in Minneapolis, MN.

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Moderator: Samuel Johnson

Panelists: Richard Bresnahan, Br. Paul-Vincent Niebauer, Raghavan Iyer, and Matthew Welch

Forty years ago Richard Bresnahan returned from an apprenticeship in Japan to establish the Saint John’s Pottery and Johanna Kiln, an 87 foot long multichamber climbing kiln. The unique context of a Benedictine Abbey and local materials offered Bresnahan a community from which to make culture.

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