Mark Issenberg

Mark Issenberg at MudFire

Gallery group show American Masters Biennial, June 2010
Gallery group show Mug*Shots, August 2009
Gallery group show Teapots A-Go-Go 2006, April 2006
Workshop presenter Intro to Ash Glazing, August 2005
Gallery group show Serve This, October 2004
Gallery group show Teapots A-Go-Go 2, April 2004
Gallery group show Georgia Clay, February 2004
Solo show Lookout Mountain Ash Glazes, October 2003
Workshop presenter Intro to Ash Glazing, October 2003

Mark Issenberg Artist Bio

In Florida, he was a fireman, sailboat captain and owner of an exotic plant nursery. In Chattanooga, he volunteers at the Tennessee Aquarium, picks up trash at Cloudland Canyon State Park and collects Farmall Tractors. (They have to be red, though, he says.)

Above all, Mark Issenberg is a potter.

Mark Issenberg creates fine ash-glazed stoneware near Plum Nelly where he first studied ceramics as a young man under the legendary potter, Charles Counts.

Later, Mark went on to receive a degree in Fine Arts and served the City of Hialeah, Florida for eighteen years as a fire fighter. Always maintaining a close relationship with fire, upon retirement Mark returned to the source of his greatest influence and inspiration. Today, Mark is an award-winning potter. His functional and decorative pieces are widely exhibited throughout the South and East.

Mark is a member of the Georgia Clay Council. He is also a long term member of Potters Council and member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild.

For the past 38 years, he has been on a quest to exhaust the possibilities of clay, concoct unique recipes for glazes and refine the forms of his functional vessels, platters and tea sets.