Paul Briggs

Born in Beacon, NY, Paul grew up in the Hudson Valley region of upstate New York, beginning ceramics in the ninth grade. His thinking about art objects as material shapes led him on a circuitous and fortuitous career journey. His interests took him into the fields of education, philosophy, pastoral work and art making. He earned multiple advanced degrees in educational theory and policy, art education, theology, rabbinical literature, sculpture and ceramics. He is currently a member of the teaching faculty at The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, NY.

Slab building is what he does to think through ideas, to philosophize concretely. Pinch-forming is what he does to quiet the mind. His distinctive, high relief pinch-formed ceramic vessels and slab-built sculptural forms are shown nationally and internationally.

While living in Massachusetts in 2016, he had a work on display at the State of Clay.