Otto and Vivika Heino
Otto Heino and Vivika Heino were artists working in ceramics. They collaborated as a husbandandwife team for thirtyfive years, signing their pots Vivika Otto, regardless of who actually made them.
One of twelve children born of Finnish immigrants, Lena and August Heino, in East Hampton, Connecticut, United States. His family ran a dairy farm in quiet farm country. Otto Heinos involvement with ceramics began while serving in the U.S. Air Force in England during a military leave, he spent several days watching Bernard Leach throw pots. Following his return to the US, he used his GI Bill funding in 1949 to study ceramics at the League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts, in Concord, New Hampshire. There he met Vivika, his teacher, whom he was married to in 1950.
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