Biography

Judith Duff received her degrees in Biology and Painting from Wesleyan College in Macon, GA.  Since 1991 Judith has been a full-time studio potter in North Carolina.  She has studied throughout the United States and Japan and fires primarily with wood using her Train Kiln built in 1998.   In the fall of 2005, she built a traditional anagama kiln with Japanese potter Shozo Michikawa and student participants. She has attended the International Workshop for Ceramic Art (IWCAT) in Tokoname, Japan.  In 2004, Judith made her fourth trip to Japan where she spent two months making and firing pottery and participating in exhibitions.  She recently received a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council to research Japanese Shino clays and glazes and attempt to duplicate them using local materials. 

In 2006 she was juror for the “Feats of Clay” in Lincoln, California and curated the “Architectural Echoes” Exhibition at the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design.  Also, Judith has served as a panelist at the past two International Wood Fire Conferences.

Her articles have appeared in Ceramics Monthly, Studio Potter, and The Log Book, and her pottery was featured on the cover of Clay Times, a national ceramics magazine.  Judith has taught workshops throughout the United States and in Japan. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at juried and invitational shows including the 2001 American Shino Exhibition, Babcock Galleries, New York.