Prolific Potter Pam Snyder
Submitted by the Garrett County Arts Council
If anyone embodies artistic creativity, it’s artist Pam Snyder of Mountain Lake Park.
She’s a gifted potter, who holds degrees in fine art and interior design from West Virginia University, but didn’t discover her talent for pottery until college. Before that, she had a flare for flower arranging, stemming from her 4-H youth, and is well known in Garrett County as the former owner-operator of Jan Florist, a business she ran successfully for 27 years.
These days, she says, “Pottery is my passion,” and she devotes nearly every day to throwing pots and running the prolific Pam Snyder Pottery. She is regular contributor to The Gallery Shop of the Garrett County Arts Council.
She’ll also be exhibiting and selling her creative wares in no fewer than eight artisan festivals in West Virginia and Garrett County this year – with a devotion to superb craftsmanship. “I carry this through all I do,” she says, of a multi-step pottery process, of which many people unfamiliar with the art probably don’t realize.
Pam Snyder