Stan Bitters is an American ceramics sculptor whose work was instrumental in shaping the organic modernist movement in the 1960s.

His large scale works include ceramic wall murals, sculptures, fountains, and garden pathways.

[1] Bitters received his Bachelor of Arts degree in painting from University of California Los Angeles in 1959.

While at Hans Sumpf, Bitters created architectural murals, tiles, bird houses, planters and sculptural objects – designs that would earn him recognition later on as a pioneer of the organic modernist craft movement.

By his own account, Bitters said that while a student at Otis, he chanced upon Voulkos sitting in his studio and then proceeded to ask him how to throw a sphere on a potter’s wheel.

“The surface of the container must be treated in attitude like a painting involving the variation of a theme, thick and thin line, color, relationships of form, scale, proportion, calligraphy, texture, and finally, the organization of all these elements into a single statement.

Because of its responsive nature and its receptivity to impressions, clay is open to tremendous variety of sculptural approaches, and can be worked additively and subtractively with equal ease.

For Bitters architecture should consider the human impact because the environment created by a building affects the people who see and use it.