Michael Wisner looks at the creative process as a collaboration between nature and the artist, where each has a voice in the process. He views art as a celebration of our contact with the natural world. Beautiful places inspire him becoming a mirror that reflects his inner emotions, helping to stir creativity to the surface. Wisner’s pottery is the amalgamation of something old and something new. For many years he studied under traditional Mexican artist Juan Quezada, recipient of Mexico’s highest award "Bellas Artes.” Through Quezada’s tutelage, Michael learned traditional pottery skills literally from the ground up. His rigorous standard of craftsmanship challenged Wisner to develop hand building skills to an extremely high level of skill. Michael Wisner worked for years under Juan Quezada’s tutelage, while simultaneously working as a resident artist at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado where he was exposed to many contemporary ideas. Straddling both worlds of traditional and contemporary ceramics, Michael began to incorporate elements from both. Today Wisner uses Juan's old clay technology rich with colors only possible by making them yourself from clay found in the mountains of the Western US. Using old and new hand building techniques, Michael produces forms that are luscious and seductive. Wisner’s work is collected throughout the world in notable collections such as the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Smithsonian Renwick, General Mills Permanent Collection, Target Permanent Collection, the CEBIKO International Korean Ceramic Collection, Sam Maloof MacArthur Fellow private collection, Phoenix Airport Museum Collection, among others. Michael Wisner has worked with celebrities like Maeline Albright, Tommy Lee Jones, Leonard Nimoy, Al Gore, Paris Hilton, James Taylor, Moby, and Goldie Hawn.