Lynn Lofton has been a studio potter for over 30 years, working in a variety of clays, techniques, and firing methods. She is currently working in earthenware and stoneware clay bodies. Hand building the whimsical earthenware sculptural pieces, she creates work that is glaze fired in an oxidation atmosphere at cone 04 using a combination of textural, crusty glazes, contrasting with smooth, dripping glazes, and terra sigillata. Lofton’s newer work is functional, wheel thrown and altered cone 6 stoneware, featuring small images on a background of soft colored glaze.

For the past eleven years, her studio (TerraVista Studios) has been in an old warehouse in the Cleveland Arts Quarter (a newly named arts area of downtown Cleveland.) She exhibits and sells her work through numerous galleries and art fairs throughout the Midwest, and is recently published in “500 Vases” by Lark Books (2010)

Lofton was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in the western suburb of Downers Grove. She graduated from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois in 1969. She received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Art Education, certified K-12, with areas of concentration in ceramics, printmaking, and fiber. In addition, Lofton completed three years of intensive study at the Cleveland Institute of Art, as a student in the Ceramics program. In addition to creating in her studio, Lofton teaches art to middle schoolers part-time at a local private school. Lofton is also a bagpiper in the North Coast Pipe Band, and teaches bagpipe lessons.