MICHAEL SHERRILL •   Bat Cave, NC

“Since the time I was seventeen or eighteen I knew the direction my life would take,” he says.  Hindered by dyslexia as a student, Sherrill discovered art as a means of communication.  When a teacher in high school taught him to use a potter’s wheel, what he calls “a romance” with clay began

Born in the mid-fifties, Sherrill studied with Frank Creech in Gastonia and had one year of private study with Rick Crown at Queens College.  A recipient of a 1992 North Carolina Arts Council Individual Artist’s Grant, he has taught at Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft, Penland School of Crafts and Michael Kohler Arts Center (WI).

Sherrill's work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Arts and Design (NY), The White House Collection, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC), Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramics (NY), Hickory Museum of Art (NC), Columbia Museum of Art (SC), Everson Museum of Art (NY) and Meile L. Rockefeller (NY).