Roseville, Minnesota
Karl Keel
Karl Keel is an engineer and architect by training but has been “casually obsessed” with clay for years. Keel is currently a Studio Artist at NCC and has dropped the casual and embraced the obsessed. Working primarily with stoneware fired in atmospheric kilns, his functional pieces explore the tensions between a controlled architectural aesthetic and the spontaneity, gesture and serendipity naturally inherent to clay processes.
Shafer, Minnesota
Adam Gruetzmacher
Adam Gruetzmacher lives in Shafer, MN, where he maintains a studio. In 2010, Gruetzmacher earned a BFA in studio ceramics with a minor in digital arts from the University of Wisconsin–Stout (Menomonie). He was a 2010 Fogelberg Studio Fellow and a 2012 Anonymous Potter Studio Fellow at Northern Clay Center. He was also a 2015 recipient of a Jerome Ceramic Artist Project Grant. Gruetzmacher’s work has been in exhibitions around the country including:Three Jerome Artists, Northern Clay Center;Clay Dwelling, Macalester College Gallery, St. Paul; and theNational Juried Cup Exhibition, juried by Pete Pinnell, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, Nebraska. Gruetzmacher’s work is featured in the Lark Crafts books500 Teapots: Volume II(2013) and500 Vases.
Palatine, Illinois
Kurt Brian Webb
Kurt Brian Webb’s goal to pursue ceramics, made over forty years ago, had nothing to do with sales, notoriety, or making work that followed the latest trends. His goal then and now, centers around education, experience, people, travel, and philanthropy. Webb’s eclectic unassuming art reflects the marriage and outcome of these lifelong pursuits.
