Harriet Campe made her first pots out of the earth beneath her. “I grew up playing in the mud on a farm in southern Minnesota,” she says. “Excellent training for a potter.”
Her work has been showcased at art fairs, galleries, and exhibitions across Minnesota, as well as in the 2003 Larkin Press book 500 Bowls: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Design. In 1998, she went from student to teacher at the Edina Art Center, joining their educational staff until her retirement in 2017.
Harriet’s love of the mud reignited in 1993, when she began taking formal pottery classes at the Edina Art Center in Edina, Minnesota. As she honed her craft, she gravitated towards porcelain, adapting painting and glazing techniques from Japanese brushwork in creative and unexpected ways.
Harriet continues to create work every day, crafting bowls, vases, cups, mugs, boxes, jars, plates and platters that are unique, beautiful, and most importantly, useful.
