Ceramists collaborating with the NCKCR

Louis is a professor of Ceramics at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA . Louis Katz often gives lectures on Dankwean and other Thai villages that specifically address the changes that have taken place in their products during their transition to primarily an export market.

Suwanee is a potter from Dankwean Village, Nakhorn Ratchasima, Thailand,. Suwanee Natewong runs a successful export business and has lived and worked in Dankwean since 1974. She has participated in the development of that village from a local utilitarian pottery to an export powerhouse.

Alan is graduated with a Fine Arts Degree from the University Of Manitoba in 1979. He then moved to Australia where he worked, and taught ceramics for over 10 years. Upon returning to Winnipeg he immediately became very active in the ceramics community by joining the Stoneware Gallery, becoming the president of the Manitoba Crafts Council, and teaching in the ceramics department at the University of Manitoba.

Laurence is graduated with a translator Degree (English-Chinese), Paris. She is living in Champasak (Laos) to practice primitive pottery in her tropical garden on Mekong river bank. She animates a modeling workshop for her neighboring. Her creations are inspired from Asiatic arts, a 25 years passion.