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Lee Onstott ~ Mica Cookware, Mica Tableware
The highways systems of America where on Lee practiced his profession as a civil engineer eventually brought him to New Mexico for a work project. That project led him here for retirement too. After moving to New Mexico, Onstott was mentored by Felipe Ortega as a student at Santa Fe's Community College. He appreciates function as an engineer and is renowned for his tableware – skillets, plates, of all shapes and sizes and the decorative use of tossed horsehair onto his objects to create squiggle designs on the plates just as they come out of the firing. It is the fusing of the practical – the civil engineer in Onstott with the intrinsic beauty of the mica and traditions of the Southwest mica cultures that got him in his word, “hooked” on being a mica clay maker.