Robert Winokur was born in Brooklyn, New York (USA) in 1933.

He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The Tyler School of Fine Arts of Temple University where he earned a major in Sculpture and a minor in Ceramics under the direction of Rudi Staffel in 1956.

He continued his education with graduate work in Ceramics at The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, New York were he was awarded a Master of fine Arts degree in 1959.

In the summer of 1958 he and Paula Colton married and moved to Denton, Texas were Robert had been offered a position teaching Ceramics at North Texas State University.

In1964 they moved to western Massachusetts where they converted a vacant barn into a working pottery and where they produced hand made, one of a kind, utilitarian pottery as their sole source of income.

In 1966 Robert was offered a position teaching Ceramics at Tyler. In 2005, after thirty-nine years, he retired from teaching. He and Paula continue to maintain their studio and gallery in Horsham, Pennsylvania where they continue their extensive ceramic art careers.

Asked about his current work Robert said, “Having been a potter for a long time I can’t help but think of the house as a unique kind of container, one that is imbued with a deep set of profound and multilayered psychic associations. To a child the house represents family, love, security and identity.”