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About the Instructor:
Linda Christianson is an independent studio potter who lives and works in rural Minnesota. She studied at Hamline University (St Paul, Minnesota), and the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts (Banff, Alberta, Canada). Linda is one of a unique group of potters known affectionately as Mingei-sotans, because they have lived and worked in the tradition of folk craft promoted and coined “Mingei”, or folk craft, by Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, and Soetsu Yanagi in the early 20th century. Leach and Hamada’s movement, and artists like Linda and her teachers and contemporaries, are directly responsible for the flourishing of American ceramics in the last century. This group also includes Warren MacKenzie, Jeff Oestrich, Randy Johnston and Jan McKeachie-Johnston, Sandy Simon, among others, all influential through their example of producing simple, traditional, accessible utilitarian pottery while living close to the land in rural Minnesota.
Linda exhibits nationally and internationally, including one person exhibits in London and St. Louis. Her pieces are in numerous public and private collections, including the American Museum of Ceramic Art and the Glenboe Museum. An itinerate educator, Linda has taught at colleges and universities, including Carleton College, the Hartford Art School, and the University of Georgia–Athens. She received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the McKnight Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Her recent writing appeared in Studio Potter and The Log Book.
One of her goals is to make a better cup each day.
We’ll email you as soon as we receive your registration with accommodation options, directions to Cider Creek Collective, and other details.
We have 4 campsites on the property, and also a list of nearby, affordable vacation rentals.