Jeff Wilson
The Pottery Club featured artist for June is Ron Santoro. Originally growing up on a dairy farm in Oregon, Ron and his wife Cindy now split their time between PC and Portland.
Ron is a Vietnam Navy veteran having served on river boats and as a sniper. His after-service career found him working for Freightliner in inventory control and as a purchasing agent.
The Pottery Club has been a big part of Ron’s life in PebbleCreek the last couple of years. He can be found in the pottery room most days of the week either in a class or participating in open studio activities.
Ron’s other interests include woodworking, the Cribbage Club, gardening and his fully restored 1930 Ford Model A street rod.
Ron is known as much for his dry sense of humor as he is for his pottery. For example, one day when making rain stick sculptures – long tubes filled with shards of clay that sound like rain when tipped or shaken – he jokingly said he wanted to make an Arizona Rain stick that had no shards for noise.
Although Ron will be gone for the summer, there will be a show of his pottery in the display case outside the Gecko Room in the Creative Arts Center.