Johnston and Gentithes Studios

Fred Johnston grew up in the South and eventually got to know some of the traditional potters with deep ties to Seagrove. Following a local apprenticeship and study, he went to New York for his undergraduate degree from The New York State School of Ceramics at Alfred University. Fred received an MFA from Penn State and did a residency at Tennessee’s Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts before he and his wife Carol Gentithes settled in Seagrove for good over twenty years ago and opened Johnston and Gentithes Studios. Fred brings a curious mind and an open heart to the art and craft of his pottery.