This purchase took place while Troy was a visiting artist at Utah State University for a week this past November as a part of a program featuring visual artists who are also writers.
Troy is well-known as a potter, teacher, and writer.
Introduced to clay ceramics in 1962 and a potter ever since, he has taught more than 120 workshops for ceramists across the United States and Canada as well as a dozen in New Zealand and Australia. Twice he was among a group of U.S. potters and sculptors who visited their counterparts in Russia and the Baltic countries, and he worked with Eastern European artists at the Dzintari Institute in Jurmala, Latvia. Troy s work has been featured in more than 35 one-man exhibitions and in dozens of regional and invitational shows, where it has received Crafts Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Troy s work is in the permanent collections of many museums and galleries, including the Smithsonian Institution, William Penn Museum, New Zealand's Auckland Museum of Art, and Leningrad School of Arts and Industry.