Phil Milan Featured Artist Mar. 17 at the Arkansas Craft Gallery

“The designs come from my love of ink drawing and creating patterns from geometric and organic shapes and lines. I use the raku firing to emphasize the unglazed portions which turn black during the firing process.”  Phil’s style developed from 25 years of working with clay and teaching pottery classes as art teacher at Harrison High School.

He took a college course of hand-built pottery and a course of raku pottery from L & R Specialties in Nixa, MO.  His degree from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana is in Advertising Design with art education certification, secondary science certification and post-graduate hours.

Milan was born in south Louisiana, and spent his childhood years in west Texas, his teenage years in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.  Milan loves living in the Ozarks.  He also enjoys woodworking, sculpture, and drawing. He recently retired after twenty-nine years of teaching, in Arkansas and Louisiana.  In addition to creating art, he enjoys hiking, canoeing, camping, bicycling, fishing and traveling.  He is married to his wife Ginger, a retired history teacher.  They have two grown children.