Ken Harju

Ceramicist

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Akin to so many potters, Ken Harju’s story with ceramics is such that “once you’ve played with clay, it never goes away.” Harju spent several years as an independent studio ceramicist producing his own work before he was hired as a production potter at Studio 5 in Seattle, Washington in 1976. While there his raku and pit fired work, as well as high fired stoneware and porcelain sold at galleries and stores throughout the West Coast region. After ten years in Washington, Harju moved to Costa Mesa, in Southern California, where he established his own studio and continues his pottery practice today.