Biography

Alan Willoughby lives and make pots in southern New Jersey where he shares a home, studio and wood kiln with his wife, Linda Shusterman.  lan enjoys creating work using a variety of clays, including a stoneware clay, porcelain and a “wild clay of South Jersey” which he prospects and prepares. His work is made on a potter’s wheel and includes handbuilt and press molded additions. The work is decorated with terra sigillatas, slips and glazes and fired in a Noborigamawood kiln to 2380 degrees Fahrenheit.

Alan has been teaching at Rowan University since 2019. Alan was the Executive Director of Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown & Collingswood, NJ from 1991-2016. His work and writings have appeared in Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics Art & Perception, Ceramics Technical and Studio Potter. 

Here is a link to a July, 2021 NJ/PBS short feature titled “A Potter’s Paradise.”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTx5vp1WE9U

Classes 

Introduction to Ceramics

Research Interests

Prospecting, testing and incorporating into my creative practice New Jersey "Wild Clays"