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Don Reitz(1929-2014) Lidded Salt glazed Studio Pottery Vessel 4.75" tall and<br>wide. No issues, incredible example of the artists skill.<br><br>Don Reitz (1929 – 2014) was one of the most virtuosic throwers the field has<br>ever seen, the foremost leader of the workshop circuit, a charismatic educator<br>and man of exceptional warmth, kindness and generosity. In 1981 he was named one<br>of the top twelve world’s greatest living potters by Ceramics Monthlyreaders.<br><br>Reitz earned his MFA at Alfred University in 1962, where he began experimenting<br>with salt-glazing, a technique largely neglected by the post-World War II<br>ceramic studio movement. Readily embracing this firing technique, Reitz quickly<br>realized that it allowed the clay to keep its natural character, and its<br>malleability did not obscure the creator’s hand. In a decade’s time, he was<br>dubbed “Mr. Salt” by his peers.<br><br>He spent many years as an educator as well as a potter; he taught at the<br>University of Wisconsin-Madison for more than 25 years before retiring as a<br>professor emeritus in 1988. His extensive body of work is represented in over 50<br>distinguished public and private collections.<br><br>Don Reitz lived and worked in Clarkdale, Arizona. He claimed that he would have<br>been a poet but for dyslexia and his inability to process language. This<br>redirected him toward visual art where he found his voice in clay. Reitz’s art<br>is his legacy, and through constant reinvention and originality, he extended the<br>definition and potential of the ceramic arts.
