Ceramic artist Tres Feltman was born and raised in Southern California. He attended Santa Monica College, UC Santa Cruz, and received his Master of Arts degree in Ceramics from UCLA where he studied under one of the preeminent ceramic artists of our time, Adrian Saxe.

Tres and business partner Dirk Langer co-invented the “Original No-spill No-slide” travel mug. Their company, Feltman Langer, became a major ceramic manufacturing company, producing a full line of ceramic housewares and decorative accessories.