Doreen Baskin

Doreen Baskin lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband Erik, and their three children. She received her BFA from the University of Illinois in 1984 and returned home to Chicago to begin her career. For the next twelve years she worked at a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children, by day, while creating her ceramic art by night. In the summer of 1996, she quit her day job, moved to New York and began working in ceramics full-time in her Brooklyn studio. Doreen has exhibited her work in galleries throughout the United States.