Nick Schneider started working at clay at twelve years old at Interlochen Center for the Arts in northern Michigan. His pursuit of ceramics took him to the University of Montana where he was introduced to the woodfired pottery tradition. He was later the head production potter for Pewabic Pottery in Detroit and went on to receive his Masters in Fine Arts from State University of New York in New Paltz.

Nick spent his time from 2005 to 2011 teaching at Greenwich House Pottery and Marymount Manhattan College in New York City and traveling upstate to build and fire wood kilns with his friends and students. His lifelong dream of building his own wood kiln brought him to central Texas in the summer of 2011.