Jack Troy
Jack Troy is a potter who makes wheel thrown wood fired pots, but his talents stretch beyond this as a writer and also a teacher. He received his B.S. from West Chester College in 1961, located in West Chester Pennsylvania. From 1965 to 1966 Troy attended the Alfred University Graduate School summer session in Alfred New York. He earned his M.A. in English and Art in 1967 from Kent State University in Kent Ohio. Troy went on to teach for thirty-nine years, from 1967-2005, at Juniata College in Huntingdon Pennsylvania. Here he built Pennsylvania's first anagama kiln in 1978. He started off teaching American Literature and in 1967 became an Assistant Professor of Art.
Troy has done an enormous amount of workshops and lectures spanning from the U.S., New Zealand, Australia, Scotland and England. He has also built and designed an impressive amount of kilns. Troy has written many articles, essays, books, poems and book reviews. Salt Glazed Ceramics was published in 1977 and was his first book relating to the ceramic field. Later on in 1995 Wood-Fired Stoneware and Porcelain was published. And in 2003 his collections of poems called Calling the Planet Home was put into print. His work is not only found on bookshelves it can be found in museums and galleries across the U.S. He has received many awards and grants for his accomplishments including the Craftsman's Fellowship, from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts in 1981 and the Fellowship in Literature (poetry), from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts in 1986 and that is only to name a couple.
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Image found at www.theclaystudio.org/events/nceca/images/jacktroy.jpg 8 Feb. 2010
"Jack's CV". Jack Troy. 8 Feb. 2010. www.jacktroy.net/bio.html
"Jack Troy". Juniata College. 8 Feb. 2010. www.juniata.edu/faculty/troy/
"Jack Troy". Studio Pottery. 8 Feb. 2010. www.studiopottery.co.uk/potter_profile.php
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