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Adam MacMillan

Biography to Display: 

1981 Born Boston, Massachusetts

EDUCATION

—Mechanical Engineering

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

— Studio potter

BIOGRAPHY 

Adam MacMillan is known for both thrown and slab built vessel forms. He has raku fired, and worked with stoneware, porcelain, and high fire crystalline glazes. He has focused on high fired fine crystalline glazed porcelain forms.

MacMillan began working at Surfside Ceramics, his family’s pottery studio in the 1990’s.

MacMillan inscribes "MacMillan" directly in the clay in the foot well of each piece, or signs using gold leaf. Some marks may be covered with clear glaze, or may be signed in wax resist and then glazed over in black and fired.

 

Artist's Studio: Surfside Ceramics

 

Typical Marks
2015
Plate
Date: 2015
Materials: Porcelain
Method: Thrown
Surface Technique: Crystalline Glaze
Photo: Artist
Photo: Artist

Citation: "The Marks Project." Last modified April 14, 2023. http://www.themarksproject.org/marks/macmillan

TAGS

Massachusetts