Otto Heino dies at 94; master potter created 'hearty and gutsy' pieces

Otto Heino, the Ojai-based master potter, educator and symbol of the midcentury California studio crafts movement who along with his late wife, Vivika, reformulated a lost-to-the-ages Chinese glaze that made him a multimillionaire, has died. He was 94.

By David A. Keeps

July 21, 2009