David Shaner

1934-2002

“The bowl? Well, the bowl is the act of containing something. It can be as simple as cupped hands. I never said this to anybody, but I always thought of my mother when I made a bowl.”

—Oral history interview with David Shaner, 2001
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Longest acting Director, Archie Bray Foundation, 1964-1970

With Ken Ferguson (who taught him to throw clay) built the first soft-brick kiln at Archie Bray Foundation