06/15/2019
I’m excited to be apart of this great event. Hope to see you there!
MEET THE POTTERS: JD Jorgenson is new to the 2019 MN Pottery Festival. Come see JD and 34 other amazing potters the weekend of July 27th and 28th on the grounds of the Clay Coyote in Hutchinson, MN.
JD Jorgenson is a ceramic artist in Kimball, MN, where he and his wife Megan Mitchell operate Maine Prairie Studio, a ceramics studio, teaching space, and gallery. Jorgenson completed his BA degree from the University of Iowa in 1999. Jorgenson moved to Minneapolis to teach and work at Northern Clay Center. During that time, Jorgenson was a recipient of the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Grant in 2002 at The Saint John’s Pottery in Collegeville, Minnesota. After Jorgenson’s grant period ended, he continued to work at the The Saint John’s Pottery as the apprentice ceramic artist with Richard Bresnahan until 2004. Jorgenson exhibits nationally and was a presenter at the International Symposium on Wood-Fired Ceramics at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona in 2006, the International Wood Fire Conference at Lake Superior College in Duluth, MN in 2007 and the International Wood fire conference at Guldagergaard, in Denmark in 2014. Jorgenson Pottery was established in 2004 and in 2007 he established The Wood Firing Exchange. The long term goal of the Wood Firing Exchange is to develop an exchange program for wood firing opportunities. It is an idea based on sense of place and community and hands on learning about clay, wood firing and life. November of 2012 he established The Satellite Gallery in St. Joseph, MN. The gallery is now located at Jorgenson's new studio, Maine Prairie Studio, that he and his wife Megan Mitchell operate in Kimball, MN.
