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Nicholas Joerling

JOERLING STUDIO

Ceramics

1958 Penland Road
Penland, North Carolina 28765
By appointment only

joerlingstudio.com
IG: @nicho1949

Nick Joerling is a full-time studio potter who has maintained a studio in Penland, North Carolina, since the mid-1980s. He received a BA in History from the University of Dayton, Ohio, and an MFA in Ceramics from Louisiana State University in 1986. He has taught in craft programs throughout the United States and abroad, has been widely reviewed and exhibited, and is represented in public and private collections.

“Occasionally I describe myself as a hand-builder at heart, trapped in a wheel-thrower’s body. Everything I make comes from the wheel, and I love the liveliness that throwing puts into the clay. But where I’m having the most fun is at the table putting wheel thrown parts together: cutting, coaxing and stretching the clay.”
– Nicholas Joerling

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