Jo Ang-Hulsey’s captivatingly cute doodles of the spirited creatures that appear on her functional pottery have delighted her fans for many years now. By day she’s an art director at a major science company in town, a job she loves. At night and on weekends, she creates wheel-thrown and hand-built ceramics as a guaranteed stress reliever for this busy working woman, wife and mom.
She discovered her love of ceramics when she and her two college-aged kids took a class together at Craft Alliance when it had an outreach building in Grand Center. “I took a couple slab class, and a couple of wheel classes, but what pushed me into my practice was going to open studio once a week,” Ang-Hulsey says. “I watched a lot of YouTube videos, learned from other potters, and experimented to keep myself int