Charles Parsons, a Salt Lake City resident, has been working in ceramics for twenty years.  He studied for several years under Lee Dillon and Gordon Moore in the ceramics studio at the Salt Lake Art Center.  He currently works out of the Red Kiln pottery studio, where he also teaches wheel thrown pottery classes. He has shown work at different galleries in Salt Lake City

Until the past few years, most of his work has been functional high-fired glazed porcelain ware.  Although he continues to do this kind of work, He has become more interested in “alternative” firing techniques that forsake the use of glazes. Specifically, he has been experimenting with various low fire techniques where the pieces are made with a porcelain clay body and then pit fired, saggar fired or horse hair fired without the use of glazes.