Michael Robison
ceramics
Michael Robison started his pottery career at ETSU back in the early '90s. After an apprenticeship and several artist-in-residence positions, he is back at work in the studio making pots.
All of his pieces are made using traditional clay bodies. Robison enjoys creating bodies of work that range from functional to highly artistic pieces with intricate detail. Robison uses the sgraffito technique, which is drawing through a contrasting slip to reveal the clay underneath. This technique is much like working with scratch board.
Often his work has a surface that has pattern on top of pattern. Robison loves the interplay of positive and negative space and tries to create patterns that make the foreground and background or the positive and negative compete for attention.
Robison works out of his home studio and currently teaches ceramic classes at Mighty Mud Clay Studios and at the Knoxville Fine Arts and Craft Center in Knoxville, Tennessee.
