Over the course of his more than 50 year career, Glick's pottery was exhibited nationally and internationally. Learn more about this venture in a vintage article from the Washington Post.
In 1979, Glick was commissioned to produce a set of dinnerware for the Vice-Presidential mansion of Walter Mondale and his wife Joan. Glick was perhaps best known for his ever-evolving, innovative one-of-a-kind dinnerware designs, subdued in the Japanese style of pottery but embellished with abstract patterns and shapes and colorful multi-layered glazes, which he created through close collaboration with his assistants and clients.
John Glick, dinnerware place setting (1992) wheelthrown, multiple slips, glazes, reduction fired, stoneware largest plate is 11 in. When he returned to Michigan in 1964, Glick quickly established a studio and showroom under the name Plum Tree Pottery, a pursuit he would follow for the next 50 years. According to an interview with Jody Clowes in American Craft magazine (June/July 1991), Glick's interaction with several small, traditional salt-glazing potteries in the town of Höhr-Grenzhausen reinforced his intent to pursue full-time studio work. Following his studies at Cranbrook, Glick was drafted into the Army and sent to West Germany. He went on to study with renowned ceramist Maija Grotell at Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he received his MFA in 1962. He studied ceramics and metalsmithing in high school and college, receiving his BFA in 1960 from Wayne State University. Glick was born in 1938 and raised in Detroit. A Fellow of the American Craft Council and friend to many in the craft community, Glick operated Plum Tree Pottery in Farmington Hills, Michigan, from 1964 to 2016.
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