BIO

Christopher Watt is a studio potter and educator specializing in the atmospheric-firing processes of salt-glazing and wood-firing. Presently based in Montana, Christopher’s work involves the production of wheel-thrown forms, preparation of local glaze materials and the resulting material evidence of the making and firing processes. 

Christopher was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, USA, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and a three-year diploma in Art, Craft and Design from Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. 

In addition to teaching and being a working potter, his professional experience has involved a two-year apprenticeship in NYC with internationally celebrated ceramist Betty Woodman and artist-in-residence positions at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity (Canada) and the Center for Ceramics of Berlin (Germany). From 2018 to 2021 he served as the Ceramics Program Director at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill in Truro Massachusetts.