Box 159
Fairfield, PA 17320
717-642-5607
JGHobbitt@comcast.net
ARTIST STATEMENT
Jack has been a member of the ACAC since its
beginning. He is also a member of the PA Guild
of Craftsmen, and other area arts groups. Jack
has been in Adams County making pottery since
1979. He maintains a rustic studio in the
mountains above Fairfield.
Jack works in many types of clay and firings but
currently enjoys reduction fired porcelains and
primitive firings. Jack teaches classes and
gives workshops in his studio and on-site
classes for other groups and organizations.
Jack has worked on many commissions and sells
his work locally at Gallery 30. He sells at the
Pippinfest in Fairfield and the pottery festival
in Renfew Museum in Waynesboro.
Jack is a 1974 graduate of Chambersburg High
School and afterwards joined the army in 1975,
where he became involved with the Craft Center
with Recreational Services. He eventually helped
maintain and teach at their ceramic department.
After E.T.S., he set up in N.E. Philadelphia
where he helped a friend with a commercial
pottery supply company and had a third floor
apartment studio.
Jack moved to Mount Hope in 1979 and established
Hobbitt House Pottery. Jack is self taught but
has worked with many potters in his field and
enjoys the ceramic art process.
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