Nathan Portnoy

Nathan Portnoy is a Texas native who received his MA from the University of Dallas with Dan Hammett and his BFA at the University of North Texas with Elmer Taylor. He also has worked and shared a studio with Randy Brodnax for four years. He has over 15 years working in clay and 8 years of teaching experience from at-risk students with Big Thought to adults at Cedar Valley College and now teaches at Booker T. Washington HSPVA. His studio work focuses on art for the people that works in the way of functional ceramics and uses the clay to record the process in which it goes through. Using wheel thrown and altered forms that provide a surface for the atmospheric and High firing techniques that he’s so captivated with, to leave their mark.