Mitchell Grafton

Mitchell Grafton is a full time ceramic artist making unique sculptural pottery and paintings in Panama City, Fl.  He grew up in Ruston, Louisiana and at age 19 he started working for Odell Pottery while getting an Architecture degree at Louisiana Tech.   Bruce Odell is a master and taught Mitchell everything he knew about pottery and life for the next 7 years.  While at Odell Pottery, Mitchell became the head designer of lamp bases that were produced for Hart and Associates, an interior design manufacturing company. After graduation Mitchell moved to Panama City, FL where he and a business partner started a pottery studio.   Mitchell designed, managed and handled the finances for the business for the next 9 years. At its peak, the studio sold wholesale pottery to over 400 art galleries and gift shops around the country and had a retail art gallery in Seaside, FL.  In 2009 Mitchell started his own art-pottery company, Grafton Pottery, in Panama City where he now creates one-of-a-kind works of art and custom orders which sell all over the world.