Doug Jeppesen

Doug Jeppesen uses stoneware to make a wide range of functional work. The majority is thrown then altered by paddling, carving and cutting away layers of clay. Jeppesen specializes in wood firing. ...
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    Doug Jeppesen uses stoneware to make a wide range of functional work. The majority is thrown then altered by paddling, carving and cutting away layers of clay. Jeppesen specializes in wood firing. Jeppsen teaches at Waubonsee Community College where he built a number of wood kilns including one of three Anagama kilns in Illinois.

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    Apprenticeships & Residencies
    Primary Work Experience
    1996
    -
    1998

    Instructor, Kishwaukee Community College, Malta, Illinois

    2011—

    Associate Professor of Art and Ceramics, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, Illinois

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    American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

    Crossman Gallery, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, Wisconsin

    Kishwaukee College, Malta, Illinois

    Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, Arizona

    University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida

    Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, Illinois

    Bibliography

    Hluch, Kevin. American iPottery. ttps://itunes.apple.com/us/book/american-ipottery/id905569043?mt=11.

    Salamoni, Amedeo. Wood Fired Ceramics: 100 Contemporary Artists. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2013.

    “Strictly Functional.” Clay Times 15, no. 83 (September/October 2009).

    “Time and Place.” The Studio Potter 43, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2014-15). 

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    Sugar Grove, Illinois

    Citation: Doug Jeppesen, "The Marks Project."
    Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/doug-jeppesen

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