Luke Sheets, associate professor in art and ceramics professor at Ohio Northern, has a piece accepted to the art exhibit “Playing with Fire: Altered Atmospheres.”
The show is organized by the Saratoga Clay Arts Center in New York and is a national juried exhibition of 68 functional and decorative works by 59 clay artists.
The exhibition opens on Saturday, March 13 and runs through April 24.
Sheets has working in clay for over 20 years. After completing his BFA in ceramics, he worked in his own studio creating and firing wood-fired pottery.
In 2000, he received a master’s in fine arts in ceramics. Since that time, he has lived and worked in Middlebury, Vermont, where he served as Resident Potter at Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center and taught ceramics for Middlebury College and in Kanazawa, Japan, where he worked and exhibited independently.
In 2005, he to ONU and teaches ceramics, sculpture and small metals. He continues to exhibit his work at both the national and international level.