Jon Ellenbogen, Rebecca Plummer

1941 Born, Brooklyn, New York

EDUCATION

— BA Cooper Union, New York, New York

— PhD, Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

— Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey

— Professor of Engineering, University of Puerto Rico

Jon Ellenbogen and Rebecca Plummer make stoneware pottery intended for daily use in the home. All ingredients are naturally occurring minerals mined in the eastern United States. They employ glazes made exclusively at their studio, having been developed after many years of research. No toxic materials are used in the clay or glazes. The pottery is fired to nearly 2400 degrees F, a temperature well above the melting point of many metals.

Jon trained as an engineer at The Cooper Union and holds a PhD from Columbia University. After working on the anti-ballistic missile project at Bell Laboratories and teaching engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, he took a ceramics class at Penland School of Crafts, where he met Rebecca. He has been a potter ever since.