Dinner Plate - Loons by Wade Scheel

Measures approximately 10.75" in diameter.

Handmade by Wade Scheel of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Wade began making pottery as a high school student in small town Iowa. After an Undergraduate degree at U.N.I. he attended Grad school in NW Pennsylvania receiving his M.F.A. in ceramics and printmaking. In 1998 he relocated to the Twin Cities.

It was in Saint Paul where Scheel began a career as a studio artist, teacher, gallery owner and an impressive 22 year career as a full time production potter. Side hustles and art fairs have always been part of his repertoire. That is until the pandemic hit in 2020, at that point he left his career as a production potter to once again pursue the life time goal of being a full time studio artist.  In his 30 Year career as an artist, Scheel’s work has transformed and evolved many times. Scheel now embraces his rural Iowa roots, the landscape of farm country and the rich narratives surrounding idealized rural life.

For his work, Scheel uses the highest quality stoneware and porcelain available to ensure a premium quality final product. His work is either wood fired or electric fired in and around Saint Paul Minnesota.

The images Scheel uses come from drawings made from photos he’s taken during his travels throughout the U.S. Those converted drawings are then turned into silkscreens to be used on multiple pieces but always different to maintain the one of a kind exclusivity in every piece. His process of transferring those images from rice paper to his work is very old technology which intentionally creates a lower quality final image on the work giving an ethereal, aged, antiqued looking surface.

“Pottery is… a piece of art that is made to be used, held, touched, conversed with.”

Find more of Wade's work here.