Stephen Stuchell is a ceramic artist and educator for Crooked Tree Arts Center, North Central Community Colleg, and Independence Village.  He is a studio potter and owner of his own business “Stuchell Ceramics," designing and making fine, high-fired functional pottery.  His artwork is primarily sold through Facebook and local art fairs and markets. He graduated with a BFA from California College of the Arts, and was a full-time production potter at Simon Pearce USA, in  Windsor, Vermont and a mold- maker/slip-caster at The Sink Factory in Berkeley, California.  Stephen is a Master potter, with proficient skills and techniques that allow him to implement and deliver this knowledge to others with the respect and acknowledgment that each student deserves. He inspires them with the skills to develop their own path of artistic expression.