Pond Farm Pottery

Pond Farm was the home and workshop of world-renowned ceramic artist Marguerite Wildenhain until her death in 1985 at 88. Arriving from Europe in 1942, she created a retreat there, building a home and pottery works to make pots in solitude in the wilderness of the California hills. For more than 40 years, Pond Farm Pottery drew artists, art lovers, and passers-by, and each summer between 1949 and 1980, 25 students gathered there to learn from Wildenhain. This international mix of students, from raw beginners to teachers themselves, flourished in Pond Farm's creative seclusion, where Wildenhain emphasized developing honest and creative craftsmen, well skilled in their profession and dedicated to their work.

California · United States