Doug Hanson, Pottery
Mount Vernon, Iowa
For over five decades Doug has devoted his art-making envergies towards works primarily created in clay. He began his career as a sculptor who made a few pots. However, that changed after he visited internationally known potters, plus museums filled with pots while on a one-year Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in England. Since that year, with the exception of an outdoor sculpture commission in 2005, he has made only pottery. Being raised in the functional life of a Midwestern farm family influenced Doug’s decision to focus solely on pottery.
Doug spent his teaching career in the Cornell College art department.
“I believe that most of the elements in an artist’s work today can be found in the art of the past. It is rare that the artist is an originator of many new elements. The creative part comes when those influences, both past and invented, are combined based on the artist’s interests and experiences.”
