David T. Berg

Most of David Berg’s work is functional pottery, and no two items in his collection are the same. Berg began his ceramics education by taking classes at the Interlochen Arts Camp and continued through high school, under influence from local area potters Richard and Marj Peeler and Richard Burkett. He continued his ceramics education under the guidance of Karl Martz and other accomplished pottery instructors at Indiana University. He worked as a staff potter at the Bloomington Pottery Company for two years after graduating from IU with a degree in microbiology. Since 1982 Berg has worked as a molecular biologist, and had not done any ceramics work until 2004, when his daughter enrolled in a ceramics class and encouraged her father to return to his hobby. Since then Berg has been throwing clay in his Berg Stoneware Pottery studio. His functional and art pottery pieces are on display in a number of galleries throughout Indiana.