Stan Baker's Highers Pottery Studio

Stan Baker - Potter
829 S. Main Street
Ann Arbor MI 48108

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Stan H. Baker
Highers Pottery Studio

Bachelor’s degree: None
Masters Degree: None
PHD: none

No, I do not have any degrees in art. Instead I spent my time making pots. I started in 1975 while in high school spending all of my time in the art room. I did manage to graduate with a triple major in art and spent several years after graduating teaching pottery at the High School. I went on from there to teach at the now closed Art Worlds and also spent some time teaching at the U of M in their residential collage. In 1979 I started my apprenticeship with world-renowned potter JT Abernathy. I worked extensively with JT for seven years and left his studio only after he had told me that I had learned enough from him and that I needed to go out into the world to create my own studio. After that I started Highers Pottery Studio named after my Grandfather Stanford Highers. My first studio was in a garage next to a house. I out grew that space fairly quickly and then move to building on Miller St. in Ann Arbor. I lived and worked in this building for several years. I then bought a house on the Old West Side of A2 and set up another studio in a converted garage. This was a nice place to work but I didn’t last long in that house and ended up moving to S. Main St. in 1990. This now is my permanent home were I live with my wife and dog. It is here that I finally built a beautiful studio with cathedral ceilings and radiant floor heating. I joined the Clay Gallery in the fall of 2001. This is a particularly good feeling for me, for now I am selling my pottery along side my mentor for the first time. As you can probably tell I was greatly influenced by him as my pottery has the same distinctive oriental brushwork and the beautiful rounded shapes that JT had taught me so many years ago. I hope you enjoy my pottery as much as I enjoyed creating it,

Thank You.