Aaron Bohrod

Aaron Bohrod began his career as a painter. In 1950 when F. Carlton Ball came to the University of Wisconsin at Madison to teach ceramics he opened the ceramics studio to faculty and Bohrod attended these sessions. Initially he hand built a few things and turned small pieces on the wheel but he was never comfortable working with clay. After Ball noticed the sketches he was making for future pottery projects Bohrod was given Ball?s large thrown pots to decorate. Sometimes the pots were leather hard clay so he could add sgraffito to the surfaces and other times the work had been fired and he painted the surfaces. After Ball left Wisconsin for Carbondale, Bohrod traveled to work with him there. Together they produced several hundred pots. When Ball moved to Washington their collaboration ended.

An interview withAaron Bohrod conducted August 8, 1984 by Sue Ann Kendall, for the Archives of American Art's Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Serviceis available at: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-aaron-bohrod-12310.