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Taylorfehl Pottery consists of Laura Taylor and Christopher Fehl, a married couple who met in 1995.
Christopher Fehl is currently the director of visual arts at Weston Public Schools in Weston, Massachusetts. He has an undergraduate degree in art education from Kutztown University located in Kutztown PA. He is currently a candidate for a Masters of Arts Degree in Art Education at Framingham State College, located in Massachusetts. While at Kutztown University, he studied drawing and painting but ceramics became his "first love" in college. As an art education major, he wanted to experience as many different media as possible, but took more classes in ceramics and eventually photography. After college, as a young "nomadic" art teacher he worked exclusively in b/w photography, especially after acquiring a 4x5 view camera he named "Ophelia". With photography, he was able to set up a makeshift darkroom in his apartment and make contact prints of his 4x5 negatives. It was a rare opportunity for him to get behind the potters wheel, and without access to clay and kilns, there was little exploration in clay. He met Laura at an art opening and they were married about 14 months later. He taught B/W and Color Photography at Nazareth High School for 6 years. After he and Laura moved to MA, he took an intensive "Wheel Working" class from Kelly Burke, formerly the ceramics professor at Framingham State, shook off "the rust", and found that his passion for clay remained. A year later, a course at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts with Warren Mathers, allowed him to begin experimenting with glaze mixing, and introduced him to raku and soda firing. He currently teaches almost all Clay Studio classes and the occasional Photography class at Weston High School. Like most working artists, Laura has taken several different paths before deciding on a life in art. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. After working for two years in Philadelphia, her office was downsized. A job offer in Massachusetts initiated a change in location, and Laura and Chris made the decision to uproot and move north. She worked in the industry for another few years in MA and found herself unfulfilled as a software engineer. She decided, "Life is too short" and took a break from computer science. Shortly thereafter, on a whim, she enrolled in both an illustration course and a painting course at Framingham State College. Her success and enjoyment in this new direction helped her decide to make a career change and enroll in the art program. Currently she is a candidate for a Bachelor of Arts degree in studio art from Framingham State College. Laura and Chris live in Worcester, MA with their three "children": a "Borderline" collie mix named Jasmine, a boxer-lab mix named Weston, both adopted from the SPCA in PA, and their orange cat, Samson, who they found in a local CVS parking lot on a miserable rainy October day. They are recent members of Fire Works Ceramics Studio of Worcester, MA. |
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