| Mark A. Nafziger | ||
| Birth Date: 1957 |
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| Born in Archbold, Ohio in 1957, Mark Nafziger grew up on a farm. He never considered a career in art. But after meeting a young woman, who later became his wife, he began to visit the art department. To his surprise he found it to be a fascinating place, especially the ceramic studio. As a result, he graduated from Goshen College in 1981 with majors in math and art, and married the woman who introduced him to pottery the same year. Now he is a self-employed resident potter at Sauder Village in Archbold, Ohio.
“I have always enjoyed working with my hands”, said Mark Nafziger. He works in stoneware and uses the wheel almost exclusively for his work in functional pieces. He also uses a decorative technique in making his pottery called slip trailing, which includes very delicate treatments that appear marbled or feathered. Slip is liquid clay and the slip trailing technique has been used historically in Early American pottery from New England, and also in Britain, Western Europe and Japan.
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