Professional Bio
Robbie Lobell is a full-time studio potter and pottery teacher living and working in Coupeville, on Whidbey Island, about an hour north of Seattle, Washington. She has been working in clay for more than 30 years, receiving her education in ceramics through residencies, apprenticeships, and assistantships. Robbie was on the faculty at the Worcester Center for Crafts in Massachusetts for 10 years and has taught workshops and classes at craft schools throughout the country, including Wesleyan Potters (MA), Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill (MA), Vermont Clay Center (VT), Mudflat Studio (MA), Lehman College (NY), The Art School at Old Church (NJ), Peter's Valley Craft Center (PA), Haystack Mountain School of Craft (ME), and Mendocino Art Center (CA), Pottery Northwest (WA), Seward Park (WA), Moshier Art Center (WA). She teaches classes and workshops on forming and soda firing in her studio on Whidbey Island.
Robbie Lobell's pots reside in kitchens, on tables, and in cupboards across the nation. Her soda/wood-fired pieces are collected and carried in galleries and gourmet food shops on both the west and east coasts. Robbie's work has been exhibited in group and solo shows nationwide including; Women with Wood: Three Generations, Pittsburgh, PA (in conjunction with NCECA 2008); Annual Mingei Glenn Richards Pottery Invitational, Seattle, WA; The Simple Cup, Kobo at Higo, Seattle, WA; Vapourware, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA; Gas It Up: Salt, Soda, and Slip, The Potters Guild, Baltimore, MD (in conjunction with NCECA 2005); Container – Content: A Survey of American Studio Ceramic Art, Fuller Museum of Art; Strictly Functional Pottery Nationals; Clay Cup Nationals, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL; the Annual Invitational Pottery Shows, Demarest, NJ; Functional Ceramics, The Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, OH and more. Robbie’s work has been featured in Ceramics Monthly Magazines, Ceramics Monthly’s 2005 Workshop Handbook, and in the Krause Publications book, The Art of Contemporary American Pottery by Kevin Hluch. She is a member of NCECA, The American Ceramic Society, Washington Potter’s Association, Artists Trust, and Northwest Designer Craftsmen.
