10/22/2025
I didn’t start off to be a potter. Just a good k-12 art teacher in West Fork. The new middle school with an art room was finished. Mr Selph, the superintendent at the time, took me into the middle school art room. ‘Here is your kiln’. Oops. Not ever thinking I would be in a school that would have pottery equipment, I had never concentrated on that area. But since I had a friend who was a potter ( a friend for way more years than I could count) I called her. After learning the in’s and out’s of running a kiln and teaching hand building , learning to ‘throw on a wheel’ became my focus. So after 23 years of teaching at West Fork, I retired and opened Griffith Pottery Works. I almost named my business, ‘slipped in the mud’ as slipping is a technique to attach one piece to another and potters refer to clay as ‘mud’ sometimes. The hardest part of retiring was leaving ,my kids, to someone else. My love for throwing has continued, as I get to meet so many interesting people and share that love of clay with them. Thanks to all of you for following Griffith Pottery Works. Please share comments and photos of yourself with your pots.
As the wheels turn,
Teresa
