Elizabeth Boggess
I started working in clay in 1990 in Ithaca, NY, when I helped my husband with his pottery workload. He was doing craft shows throughout the northeast and I helped by doing production work to maintain his inventory. He taught me everything I know about pottery and it was something we enjoyed doing together. In 1994, we moved to Austin, Texas and established a teaching studio which we had for ten years. After we exhausted ourselves teaching classes, we built our own studio next to our house to focus on our own work and then, in 2014, we moved to Galena and continued our pottery business in our home studio.
I have lived and worked all over the country. I was a teacher of the deaf, an early intervention specialist, a produce manager and an organic farmer as well as a caregiver to my parents for 18 years. I currently work out of my home studio and show my work at Outside the Lines in Galena and Dubuque as well as the Galena Center for the Arts.
I am a member of Twenty Dirty Hands which is a strong and welcoming group of potters in the tristate area. My work is all hand-built. I use slab construction as well as using extruded clay. I am best known for my little houses that are hand-built and raku-fired. They are fun to make and they seem to make people smile. I always say you can’t have too many little houses!
I appreciate the opportunity to have my creations at the Center for the Arts. Galena is fortunate to have the Center and I’m grateful for their willingness to show my little houses in the gift shop.
I have lived and worked all over the country. I was a teacher of the deaf, an early intervention specialist, a produce manager and an organic farmer as well as a caregiver to my parents for 18 years. I currently work out of my home studio and show my work at Outside the Lines in Galena and Dubuque as well as the Galena Center for the Arts.
I am a member of Twenty Dirty Hands which is a strong and welcoming group of potters in the tristate area. My work is all hand-built. I use slab construction as well as using extruded clay. I am best known for my little houses that are hand-built and raku-fired. They are fun to make and they seem to make people smile. I always say you can’t have too many little houses!
I appreciate the opportunity to have my creations at the Center for the Arts. Galena is fortunate to have the Center and I’m grateful for their willingness to show my little houses in the gift shop.
