2002 Wind Challenge
Neil Patterson a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA from Louisiana State University. He was a core student at Penland for two years and spent a year studying Ceramics at the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education in Wales. He has been an artist in residence at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia and teaches part-time at several local colleges. Together with his wife Sandi Pierantozzi, Neil teaches workshops nationally; they maintain a studio called Neighborhood Potters in Philadelphia.