CHRIS BASKIN is a Portland, Oregon based potter who makes atmospherically fired ceramics for utilitarian, aesthetic and contemplative purposes. He completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at Alfred University in New York in 1995, and has taught at numerous universities including James Madison, University of Louisville, and Whitworth University, Spokane.
Chris worked as a resident artist at Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, and the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, New York. In 2016 Chris was nominated for the Janet Mansfield Memorial Award, for his soda firing by the (ICMEA) International Ceramic Magazine Editors Association.