Janice McDuffie

"Established in 1973 by Janice McDuffie, the Roycroft Pottery was the only working artisan studio on the Roycroft Campus until Janice McDuffie moved the production to her home January 0f 2009." (http://www.roycroftpottery.com/history.html) McDuffie holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Buffalo (1970) and apprenticed with Bill Todorof at the Roycroft Pottery Centre from 1976-78. Her name is synonymous with quality, wheel-thrown ceramics associated with the Roycroft Renaissance. This group of artists revitalized the Roycroft community by working on the original campus grounds in the tradition of the 19th and early 20th-century Roycroft artisans. Their works are highly collectible. (NW)

Janice McDuffie, an artisan whose ceramic works are highly prized by Arts & Crafts collectors, recently relocated her longtime studio from the Roycroft Campus to her home, a residence built in the 1960s that was closely based on Frank Lloyd Wright’s published plans for his 1953 Usonian Exhibition House. Perhaps the most distinctive characteristic of McDuffie’s work is the extraordinary palette of glazes that she has developed and perfected after years of research and testing. With such names as Hamada Green, Copper Glaze and Shamo Yellow, these glazes range from earthy greens and blue/greens to a deep chocolate and light copper that evoke the coloration associated with hammered surfaces of early Roycroft copper work. Her vases, bowls, boxes and other objects include one-of-a-kind wheel thrown pieces and limited edition slip-cast pieces in high fired porcelain. You’ll also see beautiful hand-pressed tiles imprinted with floral imagery such as trilliums, poppies and roses. (https://www.visitbuffaloniagara.com/businesses/roycroft-pottery/)