Don Santos

BRIEF BIO.

Don Santos began as a production potter while in high school in the early 1970’s. He received his BA from CSU Chico and MFA from San Jose State University, specializing in glaze chemistry and ceramic mixed-media sculpture. He has held teaching positions throughout the state of California and has taught workshops at San Antonio Art Institute, Mills College, California College of Arts, San Jose State and many other venues. He retired in 2020 after teaching ceramics at City College of San Francisco for thirty years and works out of his studio in Berkeley, CA. He works primarily making vessels and sculpture fired at cone 10 in reduction.