For the past couple of years, Shimpo Ceramics has been providing wheel-throwing demonstrations across the country. We are proud to have a number of talented potters on our staff who demonstrate techniques of significance to their interests.

Yosuke Koizumi is a potter from Japan who joined the Shimpo team in Japan, after working as a production potter for two years in the pottery village of Shigaraki. Yosuke was instrumental in the development of the RK-Whisper potter’s wheel. He is quite a talented potter, a graduate of Tulane University, whose demonstrations focus on the spontaneity of Japanese pottery.

Po-Wen Liu is the newest potter to join our sales staff at Shimpo America. His undergraduate work was in Ceramic Engineering at the National Lian-Ho College of Technology & Commerce in Taiwan and he received his MFA in Ceramics from NIU. In 2001, Po-Wen was the Manuscript Consultant, regarding making Celadon, for the book entitled A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park. His demonstrations emphasize Chinese wheel throwing techniques.

We are happy, having the help of many of our dealers and various schools and ceramic studios, that we are able to continue these demonstrations across the country. Please visit us at one of the following upcoming demos.