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KEIKO ASHIDA studied pottery in Mashiko, Japan and received her BFA at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo. She has had numerous solo exhibits in Japan. Keiko teaches "Traditional Japanese Techniques" and "East Meets West".

 GEORGIA TENORE has been making pots and teaching for over 25 years. She has studied at Haystack and apprenticed and worked at Scargo Pottery, Dennis, MA, and was a porcelain consultant for Dansk. Georgia teaches "Basic Wheel" and "Fine Tuned Wheel."

MARI OGIHARA received her MFA from Tyler Scool of Art in Philadelphia. She received her BFA from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has taught ceramic classes both at Philadelphia and Michigan to adults and children. She is a ceramic sculptor.
  
 

Hailing from Northern Utah, CORY BROWN received his BFA from Utah State University after maintaining a home studio for two years. Immediately following his education, he was fortunate to acquire a Studio Technician job working for Bard College at Simons Rock in Massachusetts. There he also taught ceramic classes to children and adults throughout the community. Prior to his Clay Art Center residency, he spent a year in the rolling hills of rural Virginia at the Cub Creek Foundation where he was inspired by the beautiful surroundings and use of the native clay. He is excited to be in New York currently, with its wealth of art and culture. Cory has always found the chemistry of life and ceramics intriguing, resulting in a fascination with atmospheric firing, glazes, and inlaying of metallic oxides. He explores the gestural qualities of clay while striving for excellence in form and function.

JEANNE CARREAU was trained as an apprentice in Japan and received her MA from UC Berkeley in East Asian Studies. Her MA thesis compared the ceramics traditions of Bizen and Hagi. She has also published both translations and original articles on Japanese ceramics. She has taught children and adults in California, Hong Kong, and New York and has shown her work in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and New York. Having her hands in clay makes Jeanne's life happy. Jeanne teaches "Japanese Way with Clay".

 
 
CAITLIN APPLEGATE earned a BFA in Printmaking and Ceramics from the Hartford Art School and a Masters degree from the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 2007. Caitlin went on to work as an artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, where she was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant. During the 2008-2009 school year, Caitlin taught Drawing, Painting and Design at SUNY Cortland, and Beginning Pottery at the Cornell Ceramics Studio. The following year, she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Visual Arts at the Penn State University Park Campus teaching Beginning Ceramics, Intermediate Handbuilding and the Figure in Ceramics.  Caitlin’s work has been exhibited both regionally and nationally; including solo and group shows at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia, The Leedy Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Sheldon Museum of Art in Nebraska.
 

Kevin Thomas has been a professional potter for over twenty years. His work has been in galleries and museums all across our region. He went to The Hartford Art School and  Cranbrook Academy of Art for degrees in Ceramics. He has been teaching since college including being an adjunct at NYU since 2000. Kevin builds kilns, designs clay and glazes, makes hand built sculpture, throws pots of various sizes, and is willing to do commissions. Visit his website at www.kevinthomasart.com and see his work.
 
 

JEFF SCHWARZ received a Masters of Fine Art from Syracuse University in 2006.  After graduate studies Jeff spent his time establishing a studio in Pittsburgh, running a community based ceramics center in Braddock, PA, becoming an Americorps member and working at the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild during the 2008 NCECA conference. At the library, Jeff helped establish North America’s first water filter research center.  The low-tech water filter has been proven to be 99.9% effective in removing bacteria from dirty drinking water.  This technology is used in developing nations to curb the effects of water born disease contracted from drinking water.  Also from 2008-2011, Jeff was an instructor at the Community College of Allegheny County teaching ceramics, drawing and art history.  While teaching and helping to promote the ceramic water filter, Schwarz continued in his studio exhibiting nationally and internationally. He has been shown in numerous exhibitions; including an exhibition at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Korea, at The University of Tulsa, at the Carnegie Museum of Art and at the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh, PA.  He currently shows at the Christine Frechard Gallery in Pittsburgh and is represented by Cindy Lisica. 

 
DENIS LICUL is a Croatian ceramic artist and exhibits internationally. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from the University in Rijeka, Croatia. In addition to teaching our famous raku workshops in the fall and spring, she also teaches both adult and children’s classes at CAC and co-owns a yoga studio in Queens, NY where she is also a yoga instructor.
 
 

HARRIET ROSS: B.A., Ottawa University, M.A., New York University. Influenced by many years of living, working, and traveling in the Far East, Korea, and Japan in particular. She is also influence by African art and  many  contemporary American ceramics  artists.