Lorna Meaden

EDUCATION

1994 BA Art, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

2005 MFA, Ceramics, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

1990—Studio Potter

2005 Adjunct Professor of Art, Ceramics, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois

2008 Adjunct Professor of Art, Ceramics, San Juan College, Framingham, Minnesota

2012— Adjunct Professor of Art, Ceramics, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado

APPRENTICESHIPS AND RESIDENCIES

2005-2006 Resident Artist, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana

2007 Resident Artist, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado

Lorna Meaden produces a large line of functional soda fired porcelain wares. Her work is thrown on the wheel and then altered by  cutting and stretching once it’s off the wheel. The drawings on the surfaces of her work are incised with an Exacto knife in the leather hard clay and then filled in with black slip. Additional color is added after the bisque firing.

Meaden’s basic firing technique was learned early and continued to develop over the years. She learned soda firing from Brad Schwieger (Ohio University Graduate School) and kiln construction from Dough Casebeer (Anderson Ranch). Meaden’s kiln was built in 2011 based on the Anderson Ranch Kiln ‘Little Vic.' Her work is soda fired in a 45 cubic foot, bounty box style wood kiln with forced air/natural gas burners, in addition to an oil burner that is sometimes used with vegetable oil.  The kiln is fired at cone 10/11 in a heavily reducing atmosphere.