David Stuempfle Pottery

David Stuempfle left Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to study ceramics with Isobel Karl at the High Mowing School in Wilton, New Hampshire. Following a two-year apprenticeship with Lewis Snyder in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, David travelled the U.S. as a journeyman potter, settling into Seagrove in the late 1980s. He worked for Vernon and Pam Owens at Jugtown Pottery for five years while he found 20 acres of land and built a home, kiln and studio for himself. Stuempfle Pottery was official in 1992. In 1998, a fellowship brought David to Shigaraki to study and work in the Japanese pottery village. He and his wife Nancy are widely travelled. David’s work reflects that global perspective.