Ceramics
Decorative and utilitarian thrown and hand-built stoneware that tilts toward whimsy, often using colorful painted underglazes.
Growen Hill Arts 
620 South Second Street
Lansing, IA 52151
(319) 430-1364
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We met at the pot shop at the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL, in 1971. Becky Kobos was an Art Ed major and I had an Art Ed minor. Taking ceramics from different instructors during the same semester, we fell in love. And we discovered that while I liked throwing on the wheel, she preferred to hand-build. We pursued careers in public school teaching as we raised our two boys, but hauled along the potter’s wheel I had bought from a friend in 1974, saying that someday, when we retired, maybe we could make pots together–I could throw, and Becky, a fiber artist (see Etsy – Rebecca Kobos) could focus on surface design and hand-building. Remarkably, this dream has come to fruition and is working for us! Our tasks are not so distinctly delineated any more as we both grow creatively and experiment, but we collaborate well and fully, each bringing something to the process. Hope you enjoy our work!