Judith Witt-Croswhite (formerly Poe) and Bruce Pack established Live Oak Pottery in Sarasota, Florida in the late seventies, working primarily in stoneware making functional pottery and one-of-a-kind boxes.  Eventually seduced by porcelain's qualities of translucency and durability they began using it for their dinnerware, table decor, and windchimes.  Most tasks in the studio are shared by the couple, firing kilns and glazing ware.  Judith works on the potter's wheel, does handbuilding, and decorative glazing.  Bruce makes the glazes and handbuilds, also builds and maintains the equipment.  Their studio was located in a rural Sarasota County, Florida surrounded by the local wildlife typical to Florida's swamps and live oak hammock, thus the name.  Development started moving in and they made a getaway.They are now in a new phase of  life and are known as Cabin Fever Pottery. Their new studio is in beautiful wooded northwestern Wisconsin. In 2007 they opened a small gallery in their studio, dedicated to the American Artisan, in beautiful downtown Danbury, WI.  (population 202) 
In 2007 Bruce embarked on a new career as an Able Bodied Seaman working on a lift boat in the Gulf of Mexico where he is a sought after crane operator. He works "part time"; two weeks on and two weeks off.
Please stop by again. Thank you for your interest!

A lift boat has three legs that sink into the seafloor. The boat then jacks up from just above the water level to 5 or 6 stories high to work on oil platforms and wells.