Dick Lehman has been working with clay for nearly 50 years. He maintained a production studio and a ceramics gallery (employing, on average, two other full-time potters) in Goshen Indiana for 30 years.

Since 2010 he has worked ‘solo’ in his home studio in Goshen, Indiana. His work has focused on a variety of pursuits: production pottery, and exhibition/museum-quality work utilizing reduction-firing, raku-firing, saggar-firing, side-firing, wood-firing, and soda-firing. In the last two years he has been pursuing, what he calls, “Oni-Glazing”: where up to 10 glazes, stains, and slips are layered onto a single piece for a single reduction high-firing. It may be said that “experimentation and discovery are his central voice”.

Dick has had more than 50 articles published in ten international ceramics publications, was an editorial advisor for Ceramics Monthly Magazine, and his work has been documented and featured in about 20 books. He has taught 75 workshops at universities, both domestically and internationally. In 2011 he became one of the 3 founders of the “Michiana Pottery Tour”, an annual two-day Tour featuring up to 10 host-locations and 50 regional and national clay artists. In 2023 he was the first ceramic artist selected for the Indiana Heritage Fellowship Award, honoring his lifetime of employing and mentoring more than 50 other clay artists – a dozen of whom have gone on to their own clay careers.