About the Midnight Potter
Jenny Ditto is a lifelong Alaskan, born and raised in Anchorage. She first experienced wheel throwing at Anchorage West High School, from teacher Becky Voris, then continued at UAF, Fairbanks, and ACC/UAA, Anchorage. After many years of teaching wheel throwing & fine tuning her skills at Fairview Recreation Center, she opened Midnight Potter Studios to continue teaching her best techniques and skills to the wonderful people of her home town, where she presents her own curriculum & teaching style for successful wheel thrown pottery in as few months as possible. She also offers group workshops for making Baby Hand-Print tiles and leading Raku Firing workshops. She enjoys giving demonstrations to groups outside of the studio and is interested in facilitating Team Building activities involving wheel throwing.
At the studio, you can find Pottery Tools, Mud Tools (pottery tools), Clay Art Center Clay Bodies in cone 6 & 10, and raw materials for sale. If what you need is not in stock, she can order it for you. Glazes and other supplies from Amaco will soon be available. Newly available for the 2011 Holiday Season are gourmet chocolates from Vosges Haut Chocolat, Poco Dolce, and our local Summit Spice & Tea Hot Cocoa mix. Don't miss her featured "Mug O Chocolate" available whereever she is showing her work this season!
She is gathering people together who support creating a cooperative workspace facility utilizing art mediums in clay, metal, and glass to be located in midtown Anchorage. 100% of her pottery sales go towards current & future artistic facility developments. Your purchase today also supports donations she makes of her pottery to non-profit fund-raising organization that support Anchorage’s community. When you support her efforts, you help support Anchorage’s community & cultural development.
She uses recycled materials in her studio and accepts donations of needed materials (large empty & cleaned wine bottles preferable without labels, clean dry cleaner plastic, clean bubble wrap). She supports Bean’s Café via the Annual Empty Bowl Project by donating 250-300 bowls (annually) made in the studio by her or from offering skilled potters free clay & studio wheel time. She donates larger works when possible to KAKM–PBS Annual Art Auction on ch. 7, and Anchorage’s Museum of History & Art, while other donations of art or time are made to the American Lung Assn. of Alaska, Anchorage Ski Club for Alpenglow at Arctic Valley, Polaris K-12 Alternative School, Nana-WorleyParsons and the United Way of Anchorage.
Her works are functional for kitchen & bath, and decorative for home or personal wear. She works with mid-range porcelain & stoneware clays, low-fire ceramic & raku clays. Her pottery & ceramic works include large & small bowls, mugs, tagines, daubieres, oven casseroles, oil & vinegar jars, sugar bowls, honey jars, jars with lids, soap dishes, utensil crocks, beads & buttons, flower vases & planters, ceramic Christmas trees, and raku jars & vases. She is also slumping recycled wine bottles into Cheese Trays since the Anchorage Recycle Center is currently not recycling glass.
You can find her finished works year-round in two downtown Anchorage locations: FireFly Arts Co-op Gallery and Artique Ltd. Gallery.
She puts on an Annual Show at Allen & Petersen Cooking & Appliances on the second Saturday of July, outside under the tents. She and a few other potters put on this annual show. If you are a local potter interested in learning more about this show, please send an email using the Contact Form on this web-site.
She is working on offering wholesale pottery to food or cooking related stores and gift shops around Alaska. Please inquire, if your business is interested in featuring hand-made pottery in your store.
Thanks for your support!
©Jenny Ditto 2011