Don Schreckengost

Don worked with Paul at the Gem Clay Forming Company while he was in high school and learned the art of ceramic model and mold making.

He was in a big band based in Chicago for a short time in 1935, and played semi-pro baseball and basketball in Ohio and New York.

In 1936, he studied sculpture under Adolph Jensen in Stockholm, and in 1939 he was guest instructor at the Universitaria de Bellas Arts in San Miguel Allende, Mexico where he created a large fresco depicting ceramics.

[2][5] In 1945, Schreckengost left Alfred University, and became Design Director at Homer Laughlin China Company,[2][6] in Newell, WV, which was the largest pottery in the world at the time.

[1][7] Awards and honors received by Schreckengost include:[5] [1] U.S. Pottery Award, Contemporary Ceramics of the Western Hemisphere, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, 1941[1] The Binns Medal, 1946[1][8] Fellow, American Ceramic Society, 1950[1] Schreckengost's work is held in the following collections:[5] The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC[1] Cooper-Hewett National Design Museum, New York, NY [1][4] Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY [1][9] Museum of Ceramics, East Liverpool, OH International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Ann Arbor, MI [2] Schreckengost painted the following murals:[5] Fresco – Mural – Eschel De Bellas Artes, San Miguel, Mexico, 1939 Exterior Mural (107' x 17') Former Summitville Tile Showroom at 631 Boardman-Canfield Road, Youngstown, OH Interior Topological Tile Mural (40' x 19'), Subway, Philadelphia Transit Authority