Sequoia Miller works in a quiet studio in the forest outside Olympia, Washington. Employing the vernacular of studio pottery, Sequoia's work explores his unique balance of functional tradition and individual expression. Each pot is made entirely by hand, one-at-a-time.

“My first clay classes were as a youth with Toby Rosenberg, a potter in Portland, Maine. I began in clay in earnest some years later, after graduating from college, when I came across Mark Shapiro, a potter in western Massachusetts. Mark encouraged me to study at Penland School in North Carolina, where before long I was there learning from Douglass Rankin and Will Ruggles. Douglass and Will are the potters who awoke in me a meaningful way of understanding pots. They introduced me to the art and philosophy of mingei, or the Japanese folk-craft movement. They are for me a direct link to the work of Shoji Hamada, Bernard Leach, and Warren MacKenzie. Douglass and Will also introduced me to the process of wood-firing.”