JoycE Fujiwara

San Francisco potter Joyce Fujiwara is a co-founder and owner of sfclayworks. A Sacramento, California native Joyce has been creating functional pottery for many years.

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Joyce holds a bachelor’s degree in art from San Francisco State University. While an undergraduate she worked in Omega Studios as an assistant to the owner/artist which gave her an early opportunity to hone her skills in the ceramic arts. Inspired by the Japanese folks craft movement (Mingei) she spent a year in Tokyo at Waseda University and visited many of the historic pottery regions of Japan. She also did a work/study with the potter Takeo Tsudo in the pottery village of Mashiko where she also had the opportunity to visit the studios of living legends Shoji Hamada and Tatsuzo Shimaoka and others.

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Over the years she advanced her studies at the art programs of Anderson Ranch, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Archie Bray Foundation with ceramic artists including Pete Pinnell, Linda Christianson, Chris Staley, Randy and Jan Mckeachie-Johnston, and Will Ruggles and Douglass Rankin among others.

 

Her work has been showcased in galleries including the Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California; Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri; The Clay Studio, Missoula, Montana; and the Artery Gallery in Davis, California.​ 

 

Joyce’s works have also been accepted numerous times in the Strictly Functional Pottery National competition curated by, among others, Julia Galloway, Pete Pinnell, and Ken Ferguson. Her work has also appeared in the craft magazine Ceramics Monthly.

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Joyce’s work explores the infinite possibilities of functional ceramic ware and the delight and enrichment they can bring to the everyday experience.

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Joyce is also a retired Journeyman tile setter and member of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 3.