Tyler Gulden

Tyler Gulden is a studio potter and is the Executive Director at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine. He studied ceramics at Alfred University and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and has been a resident artist at notable craft centers like Peters Valley Craft Center, Haystack Mtn School of Crafts and Watershed.

A ceramic artist, arts educator and advocate, he has conducted workshops throughout Maine for children and adults through the Watershed Mudmobile program.  Other teaching includes workshops and lectures at Bowdoin College, Tabor Academy, Maine College of Art, and Portland Pottery.  Gulden has curated and juried national exhibitions and shows including Craft Boston in Massachusetts, and Watershed special exhibitions at SOFA Chicago.

Tyler’s functional ceramics are exhibited internationally in group and juried exhibitions, most recently in the exhibition “Cup: The Intimate Object VII” at Charlie Cummings Gallery (http://claylink.com).  His current work follows the tradition of salt firing, in combination with the more contemporary process of soda firing, capitalizing on the unique color and surface variations that are a natural product of the process.

Tyler teaches ceramics classes covering studio pottery, soda firing and the Japanese teabowl.