Vince Pitelka signed and dated pottery pieces.  This renowned local artist lived in Blue Lake, CA when he created these beautiful pieces. 

Condition: There is a small split in the clay in the inside rim of the bowl, where the lid sits.  It should not impact the function of this bowl. 

Approximate dimensions of these pieces:  
  Pitcher (dated 1979) 7 3/8" H X 5 1/2" W (including handle). Top diameter 3";      bottom diameter 3 1/4"
  Pot with lid (dated 1983)  4 3/4" H X 8" W (including handles). Bottom       diameter 5"

Vince Pitelka has been professionally involved in ceramics for a half century. After several formative experiences with clay very early in life in Berkeley, California, his real start in the medium came at Humboldt State University in Northern California’s Redwood Empire, where he learned clay from Louis Marak and earned his BA in Art in 1971.

Vince continued developing his craft and by 1975 he was a full-time studio potter making functional tableware and kitchenware at Railroad Stoneware, his studio in Blue Lake, California. In 1985 Vince and his wife Linda and son Morgan moved to Amherst, MA to attend graduate school at UMass-Amherst, where Vince worked with Frank Ozereko and Nancy LaPointe and completed his MFA in 1988.
In grad school at UMass-Amherst he switched to handbuilding, and did colored clay vessels and architectural sculpture for 15 years.

From 1994 until his retirement in 2018, he was Professor of Art and head of the Clay Program at the Appalachian Center for Craft, a satellite campus of Tennessee Technological University’s School of Art, Craft & Design. The Appalachian Center for Craft is one of North America’s premier fine craft studio education facilities.