Creative Clay Company

     My name is Lionel Mindin. Creative Clay Company represents a culmination of years of artistic experience. I am a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. While in the graduate program I received numerous awards/recognitions, including the Dean’s Award for Creative Excellence I have used my artistic talents both as a production potter, sculptor, and as a custom design jeweler.

      I have taught ceramics at Nicolet High School in Glendale, Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, craft center. During my years as a production potter, I have built kilns for Raku, salt and cone ten reduction firing.  

     Ceramics is a creative focus for me. I thoroughly enjoy the process from beginning to end, including the many challenges. The satisfaction of seeing a mound of clay turn into a work of art, to open a kiln and see a glaze that has worked beyond your expectations or to research and experiment with clays and glazes hour after hour and finally achieve the result you imagined is beyond gratifying.

      Creative Clay Company represents some of the finest pieces I have created and offers them to those who truly appreciate being surrounded by fine quality artwork.