Some studio potters now prefer to call themselves ceramic artists, ceramists or simply artists. In a one-person pottery studio, ceramists or potters produce studio pottery. French Art Nouveau ceramists was Ernest Chaplet, whose career in ceramics spanned thirty years. Other leading French ceramists included Taxile Doat, Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, Edmond Lachenal, and Auguste Delaherche. Exhibitions feature design classics and works of famous ceramists. When American ceramists Paul Soldner and Hal Reigger were in Nelson he attended their workshops. He has also served as President and Vice-President of Ceramists Canada.