Joppa Mountain Pottery

About The Artist
Ann & McDonald Crosby

Joppa Mountain Pottery is a family of potters and artists
living in the small rural community of "Joppa" located in Rutledge, Tennessee
in the beautiful Grainger County foothills of the Clinch Mountain.
All of their work is "One of a Kind."
There are no molds used in any of their processes.
They offer a wide range of pottery
that is both their design or custom made for the individual.

McDonald Crosby, Master Potter,
and his wife Ann started
Joppa Mountain Pottery in 1995.
Ann's son Shane Fowler joined the business
a couple of years later,
and then added his fiancée Renae Luttrell.
McDonald graduated with Honors
from Brevard College with his degree in Art,
and followed up with a
Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree
from the University of Tennessee in 1977.
And has been making pottery for over 30 years.

Ann has owned and operated her own ceramics shop
which produced over 3000 different molds.
And has roughly 20 plus years invested.
They have taught their trade to Shane and Renae,
and they all work together to make
Joppa Mountain Pottery
a successful business.

We are proud to say that we have sold our
award winning work all over the world
through our collectors and the galleries
that carry our work..
and also through the many art shows
and festivals we do each year.

Joppa Mountain Pottery
has been featured on
Home and Garden Television (HGTV)
in 1999
on Mary Emmerling’s Country At Home,
segment 408
and on
PBS’s Tennessee Crossroads
February 2005.

McDonald at the
Philadelphia Gift Mart

Our Raku Halloween figurines
were featured in
Country Marketplace Magazine
in August 2004,
in addition to being featured in many other
television segments,
newspaper and magazine articles.
The remote hills of
Grainger County, Tennessee,
hold a surprise:
high-quality pottery is being perfected
along the winding road
leading up Joppa Mountain.
For more than 20 years,
McDonald Crosby has been a potter
on the Joppa Mountain property.
With the addition of a studio and new kiln,
McDonald's wife, Ann, and daughter, Stormy,
have been lending their
own unique touches to the pottery.
The colorful pottery,
with its fruit and floral accents,
blends beautifully in a country home.
We learn the different techniques
for making both pottery and earthenware.