Collection: Guillermo Cuellar

Guillermo Cuellar was born in Venezuela and studied ceramics at Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, IA). He has been making utilitarian, wheel-thrown stoneware pots since 1980. For 25 years, he ran a studio and held sales events at his home in Turgua, Venezuela in the countryside southeast of Caracas. He was a founding member of Grupo Turgua, an association of like-minded Venezuelan artisans working to support quality, local handwork. In 1981, he worked as an assistant to Warren MacKenzie, who taught a workshop in Caracas. There began a deep friendship and link to the vibrant pottery world in Minnesota. In 2005, he established a pottery studio in Shafer, Minnesota and now participates as one of seven host-studios on the annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour.