Jane Smith Pottery :: About

Jane has been "throwing" clay for some twenty eight years.  She was born in Tennessee, grew up in Florida, graduated from
Brown College in Boston with majors in Mathematics and English (strange majors for an artist, huh?) and did some graduate work at Florida State University.  

She worked for NASA in Satellite Beach Florida as a data reduction analyst during the space age (Apollo Program days) and later for Applied Avionics in Ft. Lauderdale as a programmer/systems analyst.

When her husband was transferred to Tennessee in 1979, she left the world of industry and had the time to fully pursue her interests in the arts. While she has always been involved with arts and crafts (she enjoys working with stained glass, china painting,  and rug hooking--check some of her work here), pottery became her love.  Shortly after arriving in Atlanta, she enrolled in pottery classes at the TACA Arts Center.  Soon she had her own wheel and kiln(s) in her basement studio and was teaching classes at the Arts Center (now the Metro Center for the Arts).  She continues to teach at the center and is an active menber of several Arts and Crafts Guild.  She has her work displayed at various galleries in Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Louisiana, & North and South Carolina - just to name a few, additionally and participates in a limited number of arts and crafts shows across the country every year.