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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2022
Ceramist shares the
spirit of the Wallowas
Eric Slade/Oregon Public Broadcasting
Ted Juve is a self-taught ceramicist in Enterprise. The designs of his work draw from the beauty of his surroundings.
By ERIC SLADE
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Ted Juve dreams of going fi shing some-
day. But today is not that day. With dozens
of freshly thrown bowls and mugs curing
in the sun, and dozens more about to come
out of the kiln, his work won’t be done until
after the sun sets.
That’s what happens when you’re one
of Wallowa County’s best-known ceramic
artists. Juve’s work is so in demand that
there’s seldom time to fi sh. “All people love
his work,” said Katy Madrid, co-owner of
The Book Loft in Enterprise. “We get tour-
ists that come in and have heard of it and
are excited to bring home a bunch. And we
have locals that can hardly wait for him to
come out with some new stuff .”
Juve grew up in Enterprise, in the
shadow of the Wallowa Mountains. He
remembers playing in piles of sand at age 6
while he watched his father build the barn
on the family farm. That barn now serves as
Juve’s ceramics studio. “Living here on the
farm is pretty much a dream come true. I’ve
always loved the area and the farm in par-
ticular,” he said.
Juve was fi rst exposed to the art of ceram-
ics while attending junior high school in
Hermiston. “And by the time I was a senior
in high school, I was running the ceramics
program,” Juve said. “My art teacher basi-
cally said, ‘have at it, Ted!’”
“When I graduated high school in ‘73,”
he recalled, “I went right to work for the
Forest Service, doing trail crew. And in
the wintertime, I would jump back onto
my kick wheel and make pots every spare
moment.” In 1980 he decided to skip trail
crew for a summer and just make pots all
year. “And I just never looked back. I’ve
been making ceramics full time ever since,”
he said.
He’s known for the hand-etched designs
on his work, designs that come to him intu-
itively. “The mountains put out a lot of
energy,” he said. “And they impact my work
a lot. I’m always really inspired by what I
see from my studio window as I work along
for hours on end. I look up and you think
you’ve seen it all and the next thing you
know, something new is showing up.”
And as much as he’d love to be fi sh-
ing, Juve counts himself lucky to be spend-
ing his days gazing at mountains and doing
what he loves on the farm he’s called home
for most of his life. “I like to pass that
enjoyment on to other people — the people
that are around my work every day, that use
my work,” he said. “I try to put that spirit
of the potter into that piece so that they can
pick up that positive energy. Each piece has
a spirit of its own.”
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