Taira Wiggins

EDUCATION

Architecture and Design, San Jose State University, San Jose

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

Sweet Earth Pottery

BIOGRAPHY

Taira Wiggins is known for contemporary art pottery influenced by the Arts & Crafts Movement of the early 20th Century. The surface decoration references the California landscape. Wiggins uses the Cuerda Seca technique that involves using thin lines of a non-water-soluble wax based black glaze mixture to separate areas of glaze. This results in images with outlines similar to the black lines in coloring books.