Zach Gordon combines wheel throwing and hand-building techniques to create ceramic sculptures and fountains that are influenced by nature: ocean animals, plants, trees, and rock formations. He draws inspiration from the community of artists around him and the writers and filmmakers he loved as a child, in particular, Ray Harryhausen.
Zach earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in ceramics from Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey in 2014. For his thesis project and show, fountains as a story telling medium, Zach created thirteen ceramic fountains and wrote a choose-your-own-adventure story to guide viewers through the world he imagined. He teaches/taught ceramics, sculpture, and fountain design classes at Pima Community College, The University of Arizona, the City of Tucson, and Romero House Pottery Studio. He has studied and displayed his artwork in Japan, Turkey, and the United States.