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2026 Honorary Artist: Dick Lehman

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.

2025 Artist list - Names added daily.

Damen Mroczek

Don Widmer

Marcy Mitchell

Ann Klem

Alan Larkin

Ron Rendall

Eugenio Cerrosi

Laurie Schirmer Carpenter

Bekki Canine

Kimberley Hawk Lichty

Edd Johannemann

Kamika Perry

Jennifer Meeker

Amy Butts

Carol Estes

Cindy Evitt

Elizebeth Dreizler

Sam DeCarlo

Brooke Garber

Kathy Conroy

Bobbie Rafferty

Laura Gutzwiller

Hector Urdaneta

Jason Sturgill

Thomas Smiley

Jacquelyn Windbigler

Sally Brandl

Mark Zanowski

Amy Renzulli

Christine Bush

Angela Costner

Dawn Miller

Robert Williams

Jim Kalka

Woody Jacobs

Brian Teixeira

Laurie Moore

TJ Martin

Kei Constantinov

Shannon Godby

Katie Archangel

Joanna Alot

Joan Tietz

Ricardo Cortez

Brabent Lenting

Dawn Hatzidakis

May Schultz-Reed

Anne Blackburn

Melanie Golden