About Us

Lynn Woodward

Lynn is a well-known Norther California potter, printmaker and painter. She received her Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from San Diego State University, where she studied printmaking and pottery. Lynn did additional study of pottery with David Stuart in San Diego and with Marguerite Waldenhain at Pond Farm Pottery in Marin County. She has also studied watercolor with the Traveling Watercolor Workshops in Italy in 1992 and 1996 and in France in 1994 and 1005 and also with the Flying Color Workshop in Acapulco, Mexico.

Lynn has instructed printmaking and pottery at California Western University and the Palo Alto Art Club as well as private seminars in both fields. Lynn has also been a teacher for the Napa Valley Arts Council Education Program. She is currently teaching part-time at Lake Tahoe Community College and special art programs for the Alpine County Schools.

Lynn's artwork has been displayed in many California galleries and has been featured in many invitational and jurried art shows throughout California. Lynn's pottery and paintings are in many private collections in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Lynn moved to South Lake Tahoe in 1999 where she currently lives, works and teaches.

Larry Goodman

Larry Dee and his twin sister Linda Marie were born on December 7, 1944 in Kirkland Washington. In 1947 after the end of the Second World War they moved to Hamilton, Montana where they enjoyed the life and freedom that a small town can provide. One of their earliest memories was hearing the drums of the Indians down by the Bitterroot River playing games and dancing at the rivers edge. This memory is one of the reasons that most of Larry's pottery has and Indian influence and style. In 1954 Larry's mother took a ceramics class in Hamilton and during this class she introduced Larry to ceramic art.

In 1956 the family moved to Southern California where Larry attended Oxnard Street School, Sun Valley Junior High and Polytechnic High School. At Sun Valley Larry attended his first instructed ceramics class. During this class Larry had one of his pieces put on display at Macy's in Hollywood, California. For a short period of time during high school, the family moved to Denver Colorado where Larry attended East High and again enrolled in a ceramics class where he learned to make glazes using oxides and stains to color the glaze. Larry learned how to make slip that could be purred into molds to make coffee cups and other house wares. During this class Larry made another piece which was placed on display at a museum in Denver. In the late fall of 1962 the family moved back to California and he went back to John H. Francis Polytechnic High where attended classes in ceramic and glass enameling. Larry enjoyed the enameling projects because he got to see the finished part as soon as the glass cooled which was about 30 minutes from the time he removed it from the kiln.

After high school Larry attended Los Angeles Valley College where he enrolled in ceramic art classes. At the college Larry learned to use a kick wheel to throw pots. During the classes he made more than fifty pots in the three semesters. Again, from his work at the college, he had one piece selected to be on display at the Los Angles County Museum. While at the college Larry got his Draft Notice and went into the Army on July 20, 1966 returned home on June 28, 1968.

In January 1969 Larry went to work at Lockheed Martin Corporation where he worked for 31 years. During the years 1969 to 2001 he completed a four year apprenticeship in Electronics Maintenance, attained an AS degree in Electronic and a BS degree in Business. Larry retired in 2001 after working in the Skunk Works for his last 18 years of work at the company.

Upon retirement, Larry and his wife Chrissy moved to South Lake Tahoe where Larry registered for ceramics classes at Lake Tahoe Community College. Larry completed all of available ceramics classes and then entered the Instructor Intern Program where he instructed students in the art of wheel throwing. Larry also instructed the students on Raku and prepared a detailed instructional procedure to teach them the Raku firing process. At present Larry is working with Lynn Woodward instructing students at the local South Lake Tahoe Senior Center.

Larry's ceramics incorporates many of his life experiences, including coin collecting, jewelry design, sapphire mining, and outdoor life in Montana, California, and Nevada. One can see that many of Larry's pieces of pottery have Native American influence, the curves and grace that the Native American have developed over the centuries are so pleasing to the eye that he has tried to incorporate some of them into his own designs. Larry works on some pieces with another ceramic artist named Donna Hughes and when they collaborate on a piece it is stamped or marked with GEM& DH on the piece.

Larry has enjoyed ceramic art for over sixty years and he has found his own style and now makes pottery in his home studio. Larry hopes that anyone purchasing one of his pieces will enjoy it as much as he enjoyed creating it.

Larry's signature pieces will have holes around the top of the pot with leather lacing or various types of medallions and/or coins on the piece.

Larry Dee Goodman
P.O. Box 6737
Stateline, Nevada 89449

Lisa Riley

My interest in throwing pots started in 1964 when my parents introduced me to Catharine Hiersoux, a local bay area potter. I was in high school and spent a few years learning the basics of throwing from the wheel. Many years later I rediscovered my love for this craft by taking classes at Lake Tahoe Community College from Lynn Woodward,and Francis Rider. I am most interested in functional ware, form and balance. It is the components of clay, glaze and treatment of each piece that gives the aesthetics I strive for.

Robert Andelman