Steve Hansen

Steve Hansen retired from academia in 2024 after a nearly 40-year career as a ceramics professor, dean, and academic vice president. He currently works out of his basement studio in Wisconsin. Retirement has offered him the opportunity to make work he loves, for the pure joy of creation. His work has been included in over 100 exhibitions, and has appeared in Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics: Art & Perception, American Craft, The Teapot Book, American Style, and Extruded Ceramics. His work is in the permanent collection of the Fuller Craft Museum, the Midwest Museum of American Art, the American Museum of Ceramic Art, The Kamm Teapot Collection, and The University of Iowa. Since 1999 Steve has concentrated his efforts primarily on creating work in the tradition of trompe l’ oeil ceramics, with an emphasis on nostalgia, ironic social commentary, music, context-free comics, and Americana.