General Info

History of Yellow Springs Pottery Yellow Springs Pottery is a retail pottery cooperative opened in 1973 by four local potters in a tiny retail space in Yellow Springs. Now, nearly 35 years later, we have 10 members and are located in a larger space just a few yards around the corner from that original building. While each of us has a home studio, we work together on all aspects of running our business, Yellow Springs Pottery. As an artist owned cooperative, we perform all the tasks of running the business whether it be building our displays, designing our post cards, or keeping the books. When you visit Yellow Springs Pottery, you meet one of the artists whose work is on display. We staff the store ourselves to provide our customers with good service and high quality pottery at reasonable prices. Each of the ten potters in our group has an individual style and way of working with clay, ensuring a wide range of pottery throughout the store. Though much of our work is functional kitchenware, we also have a striking variety of unusual and decorative pieces: vases and wall pockets, bird and butterfly houses, wind chimes and bird feeders, mirrors and lamps. To see a sample of each potter's work, go to the Artists section of this site. Yellow Springs and Environs Yellow Springs is a small town with a lot of character and a lot of community enhanced by both Antioch College and Antioch University McGregor. Though the population is only around 4, 000, excluding the college, the village has a diverse range of shops, galleries, and restaurants. An art movie theater shows first run, independent and foreign films and the Yellow Springs News has published a weekly newspaper for over 125 years. Since the 1960's, Antioch College has operated a radio station WYSO, a national Public Radio affiliate with locally hosted shows. Glen Helen, a 1000 acre nature preserve owned by Antioch College, is open to the public. The Glen borders a mile along one edge of town. Cross a road on the far side of the Glen and you're in John Bryan State Park, which has much to offer in day use or camping. John Bryan State Park connects with Clifton Gorge where the Little Miami River has made a deep cut in the limestone. It's a great place to take a walk as well, right on up to the historic Clifton Mill, still in operation in the town of Clifton. Along the edge of downtown Yellow Springs runs one of the many Ohio bike paths built on old railroad beds. The bike path is part of the Little Miami Scenic Trail going from Springfield to Cincinnati, and links up to other area bike paths. For more information on all of the above, go to our Links page where we've listed some websites we think are of interest. Yellowspings.com provides a good overview of our area and includes many additional links.