Mark Slick was born in Tucson, Arizona and raised near Milwaukee in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Growing up, Mark’s early artistic pursuits revolved around music, oil and acrylic painted canvases and photography.

In 1976 Mark started his professional pottery career in Minnesota, just two weeks after receiving his BFA in Ceramics and Photography from Utah State University. He spent his first five years working on the potters wheel at a large production pottery in Minneapolis as a full-time potter. Four of those years he held the head potter position. In 1979 he began gathering equipment and building his own home studio in his two car garage. In 1981 he left the large pottery to work exclusively from his own pottery studio, which he named North Country Stoneware. Several years later he changed the name to Mark Slick Stoneware. By 1988 Mark had moved again and built a large studio on his property north of Minneapolis. He sold his artwork out of his Minnesota studio and at galleries and juried art festivals throughout much of the Midwest and Eastern United States. For a number of years his work was also sold by his parents who decided to hit the Art Fair circuit when his father retired. They traveled and sold Mark’s work throughout much of the Southeastern United States, under the name, Stoneware by Slick.

Mark’s work is owned by people across the U.S. and throughout the world. Through the years his work received well over one hundred awards of merit, serving as a testimonial to the value and artistic quality of Mark Slick Pottery.