Roy Strassberg is a renowned ceramic artist whose work is devoted to remembrance.  Based now in Davidson, North Carolina, Strassberg began his practice in New York, in the ceramic studio of the art department at SUCO Oswego, where he also met his wife and artist partner, Barbara.  After decades of producing highly sought after decorative and utilitarian vases, Strassberg was awarded a prestigious Faculty Research Grant from Mankato to study the Holocaust as a subject for artistic interpretation.  The experience shifted his professional practice from one focused on aesthetic alone to one driven by passion and purpose.  Rooted by an impending sense of time running short, Strassberg’s series of works remember and commemorate the Holocaust through unique forms such as fragment pots, enclosures and architectural sculptures. Strassberg’s “conscious and irrevocable decision” to pursue work he feels called to make has placed him at the forefront of content-driven contemporary artwork that is collected around the world and prized for both its aesthetic excellence and depth of meanin