Ellen Fager
Ellen Fager listened to the hum of the potter’s wheel in utero, but her mother gave up clay when she was born, and she had to wait until high school to actually touch the stuff. For years, she frequented the UCSD Crafts Center, taking classes and workshops (her only formal training), then teaching classes, and meeting fellow potter (later husband) Ed Thompson, with whom she joined the Potters’ Guild for the first time in 1983.
A few years later, she and Ed moved to Portland, Oregon to fix up a decrepit mansion he had inherited. In their basement studio, Ellen made elaborate fish teapots which she shipped all over the country. Back in San Diego, she took a long break to raise a family and support Ed’s career, and she has only recently returned to her work in clay. She was delighted to be teaching again at the UCSD Crafts Center until its abrupt closure in September 2012. She now teaches classes at the Guild. She is a member of the Allied Craftsmen of San Diego. Ellen makes one-of-a-kind functional ware. Her work is mostly wheel-thrown, almost always paddled, pounded, cut and pasted. She likes the things that happen when the symmetrical, utilitarian products of the potter’s wheel are altered and combined. She usually works in stoneware, and fires in reduction to cone 10. |
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