Rita Ryan

Artist's Statement:

Rita Ryan walked into an open door at the Heights Community Center one hot summer day in 1981. There she met her future. Rita Ryan began making pottery with teacher Penne Roberts at the Heights Community Center that day. Learning both hand-building and wheel skills. After taking a rather larger break from clay from 1988 to 1999 to raise two wonderful children Rita found her self starting all over again in the spring of 1999 with clay classes at Mudfish Pottery. Then more classes at the Heights Center with Penne Roberts and finally classes with Corrales Potter Dan Feibig.

After 2 years of re-inventing her pottery skills Rita started to sell at the local growers market, feedback was terrific and when local customers were fighting over her pottery at her booth, Rita decided that making pottery was just what the doctor ordered to relieve her stressful days as a Commodity Futures Broker.

Rita spends every spare minute of her very busy schedule making what she describes simply as “Pretty Little Pieces of Art”.