Contact Information:
Mark Zellers
Department Chair
Tel: 401-825-2068
401-333-7270
Email:
mzellers@ccri.edu
Mark Zellers
Mark Zellers was born in Two Harbors, Minnesota. After an
unremarkable youth he blundered into the University of Wisconsin Superior pot
shop and was inspired by the people and work he encountered there. He traveled
around the area meeting and working with craftspeople and artists who shared the
humble and extraordinary labor of making pots. Motivated by the clay and guided
by others’ thoughtful advice, he built up his studio practice. Later in
graduate school at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, he met more
inspiring people, including his wife and fellow ceramist. He currently makes
pots in Pascoag, Rhode Island and teaches at the Community College of Rhode
Island.
