Our Team

  • Jennifer Waverek | Founder/Director/CEO

    Jennifer has 30+ years of experience in brand strategy and graphic design, working both in-house and as a principle partner in her own creative agency. She’s worked for fortune 500 companies such as Martha Stewart Living, Clinique, and Donna Karan to local boutiques and art collectives. Jennifer holds a BA in Visual Arts and Art History from Columbia University. Jennifer has shown work in the disciplines of painting, printmaking, graphic design, and handbuilt ceramics.Jennifer is the creative director and brand strategist behind BKLYN CLAY.

  • Laura Vogel | Operations Director/COO & CFO

    Laura Vogel, has put her ADD to work from a young age, while taking time away from math league and competitive dance to dive into high school ceramics classes. At NYU she minored in ceramics and photography while getting an otherwise completely useful degrees in anthropology, philosophy. After graduating from Brooklyn Law School, she retired from law and began work as a digital producer in entertainment. She joined Jennifer to open the Prospect Heights location of BKLYN CLAY in 2018 where she is the director of operations. Now, when not posting on instagram for celebrities, Laura enjoys arguing with customer service reps and finding new and interesting uses for Google sheets.
    she/her

  • Anders Hamilton | Studio & Programming Director

    Anders is a Brooklyn based artist and writer. He received his BFA from the University of Minnesota where he later worked as a ceramics technician and teaching specialist. He has written for Cfile as a Spotted columnist and for MPLS Art as a guest writer. Since moving to New York he has held fabrication and technician positions at various studios including the David Altmejd Studio. His own work makes use of various materials to work through concept based projects.
    he/him

    @andershamilton_

  • Gustav Hamilton | Studio & Creative Director

    Gustav Hamilton was raised in Fargo, North Dakota and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He is a Studio Manager at BKLYN CLAY and a designer, fabricator, and general handyman for BKLYN CLAY Made. Gus began working with clay after being cut from the show choir in high school and taking the class to fulfill his requirements. He holds a BFA from the University of Montana and an MFA from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Gus continues to make paintings and sculptures and has shown at David B. Smith Gallery, Zoe Fisher Projects, the Hole, The Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, and Fisher Parrish. He has been the runner up for funniest employee of the month award for 28 consecutive months.
    he/him

    @gustavhamilton

  • Sarah Allwine | Production & Creative Director | Instructor

    Sarah is a ceramic artist, painter and designer based in Brooklyn NY. She is the Lead Technician at BKLYN CLAY and Designer, Foreman, and Head Jolly Boy at BKLYN CLAY Made. Sarah was principal in the design of the Saturn Dinnerware line and makes each piece by hand using a jigger/jolly machine. She has won the funniest employee of the month award for 28 consecutive months. Sarah graduated from NYU with a degree in Fine Art with a concentration in Ceramics and Painting in 2017 and continues to make work that explores themes from popular culture on functional forms.
    she/her

    sarahallwine.com
    @sarahallwine

  • Emily Hoffman | Operations Coordinator & Customer Experience Manager

    Emily is a Brooklyn based artist and writer. She works in a variety of media including ceramics, video production, illustration, and paper engineering. Much of her work is inspired by her dog, Argos. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Art and a BA from Barnard College.

    emilyhughston.com
    @emilyhughston

  • Kyle Garnett | Facilities Manager

    Kyle Garnett holds a BFA in Printmaking and MA in Education from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He has worked as a freelance printmaker, woodworker, and skilled contractor for more than 20 years. Kyle is a member of Local One IATSE, following in his father’s footsteps working behind the scenes on numerous Broadway productions. A resident of Red Hook, Brooklyn, Kyle has contributed to exquisitely hand-crafted bars all over the city, from Insa, to The Good Fork, to Gage & Tollner, and is a driving force behind Red Hook’s Barnacle Parade.
    he/him

  • Corinne Chase | Studio Tech | Instructor

    Corinne Chase is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY who primarily works in ceramics, mixed materials, metal casting, performance art and dance. Corinne engages with time and gravity as a counterpart in capturing artifacts of gesture between artist and material. In 2017 she graduated from Alfred University New York State College of Ceramics with a BFA in ceramic sculpture and minor in dance.
    she/her

    corinnechase.com
    @corinne.chase

  • Grace Fossett | Studio Tech | Instructor

    Based out of Brooklyn, NY, Grace Fossett is an interdisciplinary artist actively blurring historical boundaries between fine art and craft. Fossett’s work is a playful yet emotionally charged exploration of family, relationships, and histories both real and imagined. It conjures up a dream-like sense in her audience, blending fantasy and humor with poignant resonance. Fossett graduated with a BFA at Alfred University in 2020.
    she/them

    gracefossett.com
    @greasigraci

  • MaryKate Glenn | Studio Tech

    MaryKate Glenn is a Brooklyn-based artist, performer and occasional writer. When she's lucky, she also gets to work with clay! She recently graduated from California Institute of the Arts with her MFA in Acting, where she worked as a tech in their wonderful ceramics lab. Her BA is in Theology from Fordham Rose Hill Honors College. She has been working with clay for over six years, all over New York City, and (during one memorable summer) in the back of a barn on a farm in Vermont. She mostly wheel throws, with occasional dabbling in slab-building, and loves making functional-ware: mugs for warm coffee or cool wine, bowls for homemade soup and big salads, vessels that invite in community, conversation, and spark joy.
    she/her

    marykateglenn.com

  • Rhea Barve | Studio Tech

    Rhea Barve was born in Mumbai and raised in Bangalore, India. She is usually drawing, working with clay or watching videos about things growing. She received her BFA from New York University in Spring 2022 with a concentration in Ceramics and Animation.
    she/her

  • Anais Isabel DeLosSantos | Studio Tech

    Anais she/her is a ceramicist and tattoo artist who recently moved to New York from Philadelphia. While studying sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute, Anais began working in clay and developed an avid sketchbook practice. If she’s not in the studio tattooing or drawing, you can probably find her biking through the New Jersey suburbs where she grew up.
    she/her

    anaisdelossantos.com
    @freakychiica

  • Elia Doyle | Studio Tech

    Elia is a Brooklyn based artist with a lifelong love of ceramics. They graduated with a BA in Anthropology and Art History from Purchase College in 2020. Since then they have taken on a number of studio assisting and fabrication positions. They have worked on projects shown in the Brooklyn Museum and LaGuardia Airport.

    Outside of the studio, they love foraging for mushrooms, knitting, and finding free stuff on the street.
    they/them

    @shmeliadoyle

  • Liz Labows | Studio Tech | Instructor

    Liz grew up outside of Philadelphia and moved to Brooklyn after receiving her BA in Studio Art and Mathematics from Swarthmore College. She loves to throw a classic mug or bowl but recently ventured into larger works combining thrown and handbuilt pieces into mathematically inspired sculptures. Outside of pottery, Liz enjoys knitting, crocheting, and baking, acquiring the nickname "Grandma Liz" by the ripe age of twenty-two from college teammates.
    she/her

  • True Lyons | Studio Tech

    True Arizola-Lyons is a ceramic artist from Philadelphia who is currently based in New York City. She received her BFA in Ceramics from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2024. 

    Through her work, Arizola-Lyons archives the specialness & superficiality of identities shaped by the internet, popular culture, and consumerism. Arizola-Lyons has

     shown in spaces like Snide Gallery in Louisville, KY, and Current Space Gallery in Baltimore, MD.
    she/her

    @thanku4_everything
    truearizolalyons.cargo.site

  • Kris Waymire | Studio Tech

    Kris Waymire was born in Seattle Washington and grew up in Baltimore Maryland. Kris combines materials that do not belong together such as metal with ceramics, industrial with organic and digital with traditional. This multimedia drive stems from the desire to queer objects. Kris attended NYU for studio art and has worked in ceramics for years.
    They/them

    @kris_waymire

  • Sam Baldwin | Front of House

    Sam is an artist and musician originally from Seattle Washington. He moved to the big apple after graduating from the University of Portland with degrees in acting and philosophy. In his free time he enjoys going to the movies, cooking, and just kind of goofing around.
    he/him

  • Cleo Barden | Front of House

    Cleo is a visual artist originally from the Bay Area California, who had to drop out of her

    Digital Design program when she realized that she couldn’t stand not making things with

    her hands, and had to apply to art school. She now enjoys mediums like painting,

    collage, pastels, and of course, all kinds of clay! She is inspired by graphic novels,

    animals, her beautiful hometown and her friends. Ask her about her close friend (cat) Jiji!

  • Fabiana Cardenas | Front of House

    Fabi is a proud Venezuelan living in Brooklyn with her husband and their dog, Emmy. With a strong background in digital marketing and creative strategy, she is passionate about using creativity to foster meaningful connections. Fabi is also the co-owner of a small apparel brand dedicated to promoting mental health awareness, ensuring everyone feels accepted and supported. In her free time, she enjoys illustrating, writing, and collaborating with others in vibrant, creative spaces.

  • Keni Dawkins | Front of House

    Kent is a NYC based visual artist.

  • Greer Durham | Front of House

    If you see a 6'3 creature roaming the studio, that's Greer!! Greer(she/they) is an actor, visual artist, and theatrical clown and you can find examples of her work on her website. She has her BFA in Acting and a minor in Art&Design from the University of Illinois-Urbana and is originally from Bloomington, IL. When she isn't performing or painting she likes to read sci-fi novels, watch anime, cook vegan meals, and gawk at subway rats.
    she/they

    greernicoledurham.squarespace.com
    @gerrderrherm

  • Alana Giarrano Oula | Front of House

    Alana (they/them) is an artist based in Flushing, Queens. They work in ceramics, book arts, and medium format film photography exploring memory, war, and multicultural identity. Outside of the studio they can be found stringing pearls and designing pieces for their small business, Pomelo, which supports bomb clearance in Laos. They studied at The New School (Parsons and Eugene Lang) before completing a BA in political science at Emory University.
    they/them

    @pomelo.nyc
    pomelonyc.com

  • Nicole Miller | Front of House

    Born and raised in Miami, FL but grew up in East Tennessee in the Smoky Mountains as well. My journey with clay began in high school to then furthering my love for ceramics into college by studying Fine Arts/Studio Arts for two years. However, right after college in 2018, I began my music photography career. With that, I like to think of myself as a multi-media and experimental artist and learning to fuse my love for music and ceramics. If I'm not creating with my hands or at a live show, I'm mostly likely with my two pups on a long walk or in my sketchbook. she/they

  • Sophie Paquette | Front of House

    Sophie Paquette is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Bloomington, Indiana. She is interested in text, moving image, storytelling, process, pattern, and playtime.
    she/her

    whereissophiepaquette.com

  • Kim Sandra | Front of House

    Kim Sandara (b.1994, Falls Church, VA) is a bi, genderqueer, Lao/Vietnamese American, multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. In 2016, they graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, with a BFA in General Fine Arts. Using abstract painting, stop motion animation and cartooning, their work focuses on queer escapism, intergenerational trauma and intersectional identity. 

  • Taku Uyeda | Front of House

    Taku was born and raised in Monterey, California, until he made the choice to move to New York in 2019. Since he was young, he has always had a passion for the arts, and took ceramics throughout high school, and taught kids how to throw on the wheel during his summers back home. In his spare time, he loves walking around Brooklyn with his grandfather's old film camera, or editing videos at home with his cat, Tuna. he/him

  • Jiyu An | Instructor

    Jiyu An is and makes work that is: ceramic, interactive, sculpture, abstract, interdisciplinary, windows, technology hybrid, assemblage, different materials, attention seeker, empathy, society, socializing, vigorous, amusing, tangible, exploring, sensitive, relational, substance, emotional, positive, negative, easygoing, and me.
    she/her

    @jiu__an
    jiyu.world

  • Kyle Brumsted | Instructor

    Kyle is a Brooklyn based artist originally from Ithaca, NY. He has worked as an apprentice, technician, teacher, and resident artist at studios throughout the U.S. and Canada. Among many other things, Kyle is interested in making finely crafted functional pots, building community through the joy of collective making and knowledge-sharing, and firing atmospheric kilns.
    he/him

    @krumsted

  • Gary Bui | Instructor

    Gary is a queer Vietnamese American ceramics lover from Los Angeles and now lives in Queens. When he's not behind the pottery wheel he designs electrical infrastructure for buildings around the US. His approach to the classroom is to provide structure for learning, encourage experimentation, and create space to form community.
    he/him

    @gary_af

  • Vanesa Cabezas | Instructor

    Vanesa Cabezas was born in Bogota, Colombia. In her work, she re-interprets and disseminates Traditional Latin American Pottery within her creations and classes. She is a Co-Founder of Les Monarcas de Barro (The Butterflies of Mud) a project that seeks to link the expansion of access and learning of ceramics to Immigrant, Black, and Brown Communities. She obtained her Master's Degree in Plastic and Visual Arts from the UDFJC in Bogota, Colombia. She has been a pottery instructor at Clayworks on Columbia, BKLYN CLAY, and Community Organizations in NYC and NJ.
    she/her

    mutandoterra.wixsite.com
    @mutandoterra
    @lesmonarcasdebarro
    lesmonarcasdebarro.wixsite.com

  • Jessica (Jessy) Campbell | Instructor

    Jessica’s art education began at Delaware College of Art and Design and continued at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. During her time in school she excelled in ceramics and sculpture, but focused on a BFA in Photography. After working in the photography industry for almost twenty years, and wanting a more tactile art practice, she began taking classes at ceramics classes in 2017. Several years later, she continues to practice and teach. She believes that all of her students’ work is special whether they are a beginner or an experienced artist. Despite ceramics being practiced for thousands of years, each piece is unique and holds its own beauty.
    she/her

    messyjessyceramics.com
    @messyjessyceramics

  • Tucker Claxton | Instructor

    Tucker, from Kansas now Brooklyn, has been working with clay since childhood. Now they mainly focus on multi-media-based installation. Their art explores humor, commodity, desire, and LGBTQIA+ issues. They hold a BFA in Ceramics, and a BS in Art Education from Kansas State University, and is currently seeking their MFA in Studio Art at Hunter College.
    they/them

    @stclaxton

  • Cammi Climaco | Instructor

    Cammi Climaco is a multidisciplinary artist with a deep focus in ceramics. She has an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Cammi has taught at UNC Chapel Hill, Pratt and the 92Y. She is also the host of The Ceramics Podcast along with BKLYN CLAY co-studio manager Gustav Hamilton.
    she/her

    cammiclimaco.com
    @cammiclimaco

  • Adriana Cristal | Instructor

    Adriana Cristal is a midwest mutt who grew up with dial-up internet and no cable -- once, she waited all night long for one music video, “Colt 45,” to load on youtube during a sleepover. Their work toys with transcendence, poise, and infinity. She showcases her ceramic work through performances, happenings, and internet events. After graduating from Marymount Manhattan College in 2017, they worked as a manager in various ceramic studios, and spent two years as ceramic artist in residence for Access Arts. Currently, they make ceramics in Redhook, Brooklyn. she/they

    adrianacristal.com
    @acristalgirl

  • Bernadette (Bernie) Daroux | Instructor

    Bernadette Daroux has been working with clay for over 15 years and has an affinity for funky functional objects that solve a problem. She is proficient in wheel throwing, hand building, mold making, and slip casting but the wheel is her favorite form of meditation. She believes working with clay has magical powers that help people concentrate, problem solve, gain confidence, and release the stress of everyday life.
    she/her

    @bernadette.daroux
    goldbearstudio.com

  • Allyssa Dezaldivar | Private Lesson Instructor

    Allyssa DeZaldivar is a multimedia artist from Southern California, now based in Brooklyn. She earned her BFA in Studio Art Ceramics from the University of Arkansas in 2024 and has been teaching ceramics for +5 years. Her work explores both wheel-thrown and handbuilt techniques and often features a fascination with irregular forms, symbols, limited color palettes, and glimpses of varying texture.
    she/her

    Aldezald.com

  • Eric Dolgins | Private Lesson Teacher

    Eric Dolgins is a ceramic artist and teacher. He has been wheel throwing since 2005. Recently joining BKLYN CLAY as a Private Lesson Instructor, he has also previously taught ceramics at both the Chelsea Ceramics Guild and  DGR Studio Tribeca Potters in New York City and is knowledgeable in various ceramic techniques. As a native New Yorker Dolginswas born and raised in Manhattan. He received a B.S. in Art from Skidmore College.  Following his interest in art and art history, Dolgins studied for a year in Florence, Italy.  Dolgins later returned to Italy and interned at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Professionally he has always worked in the arts and currently works at an art conservation firm that specializes in technology based contemporary art.

    ericdolgins.com

  • Kaixin Fan | Private Lesson Teacher

    As an independent ceramic artist based in Manhattan, Kaixin brings over years of experience in ceramic practice and studio pedagogy He received his B.A. in art at the University of California, Irvine, and his M.A. in art education (concentrated in studio pedagogy) at Teachers College, Columbia University. With a deep appreciation for his Chinese cultural heritage, Kaixin creates unique, handcrafted pieces that blend traditional techniques with modern aesthetics. Kaixin's work is a testament to meticulous craftsmanship and artistic exploration, now sharing his expertise as a private lesson instructor at BKLYN CLAY.
    he/him

    @kkai_studio

  • Sara George | Private Instructor

    Sara is a functional and fine art ceramicist currently based in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. While growing up in Portugal, Morocco, and Germany Sara developed a love for clay as she experienced it through each countries’ unique traditional, historical, and cultural lens. In high school she began studying ceramics formally and eventually pursued degrees in Fine Arts and Art Therapy. Today she draws inspiration from her many homes around the world, using clay to explore both the dissonance and connections of the cross cultural experience.
    she/her

    @saragetsfired

  • Luc Hammond-Thomas | Instructor

    Luc Hammond-Thomas is a native New Yorker, from the Lower East Side. He received his BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where his primary focus was in ceramics and woodworking. This fall, Luc will be teaching Wheel Throwing for Beginners at BKLYN CLAY’s new Prospect Heights location.
    he/him

    luc-hammondthomas.squarespace.com @luchammondthomas

  • Sophie Haulman | Private Lesson Instructor

    Sophie is a multimedia sculptor and ceramicist from Wilmington, NC. She received her BFA ('19) in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work focuses on material-based experimentation and rides the line between functional and impractical, always prioritizing play and exploration. She works with both wheel-thrown and hand-built ceramic forms.
    she/her

    @soph_haulman
    cargocollective.com/sophiehaulman

  • Arielle Himmel | Private Lesson Instructor

    Arielle, a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist, balances her passion for ceramics with the full time demands as a production designer. Her love for clay and sculpture began during her studies at Lewis & Clark College, where she earned a BFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in Ceramics and a minor in Music History. Her passion extends beyond her own art, as she’s shared her love of art by teaching children through non-profit organizations and now teaching private lessons with BKLYN Clay. When she's not creating art or transforming sets, you can find Arielle on the road, capturing quirky vanity plates or exploring the beauty of upstate New York.
    she/her

    @prettu.gross

  • Alli Houghton | Private Lesson Instructor

    Alli has been working with clay since childhood. When she's not behind the wheel, she works in Operations at Christie's Auction House. She holds a BFA in Art History from Pratt Institute. She currently lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
    she / her

  • Genna Howard | Instructor

    Genna Howard is a painter, tattooer, and ceramicist born and raised in New York. Known for their eye for design among different surfaces and attention to small detail: they utilize the foundations of both watercolor painting and traditional tattooing in their use of underglaze painting.
    they/them

    genna-howard.com
    @gennamhoward

  • Jasper Johns | Instructor

    Jasper grew up in Michigan before receiving a BFA in Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design. Now Brooklyn based, he has a sculpture practice and is also co-founder of Studio FraJas, a design collaboration that specializes in whimsical ceramic objects with elaborate glaze patterns. Jasper’s interests include glaze chemistry, art history, and literature.
    he/him

    @jasperisaacjohns

  • Ava Kapetanakis | Instructor

    Ava Kapetanakis is a ceramist and plant lover based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Originally from Charlotte, NC, Ava found her love for wheel throwing in her freshman high school ceramics class. Her work is inspired by: vintage upholstered furniture, costume design, movie wardrobe, music, and vintage prints. Ava’s signature funky planters can be found on her website and on the shelves of small businesses all over the country. She has taught wheel throwing to both adults and children for several years and has recently finished a month long residency at Skop art in Skopelos, Greece. she/her

    avaceramicsbk.com
    @avaceramicsbk

  • Smriti Kapuria | Instructor

    Originally, I am from India and own a Bachelors and Masters degree in Mathematics. I had a long desire for art and I have developed this talent through my passion over the years. I enjoy wheel throwing and hand building with clay for my functional and sculptural artwork. I also practice abstraction in oil painting and photography.
    she/her

    saatchiart.com/smritikapuria
    @smriti_kapuria

  • Kay Kojima | Instructor

    Kay Kojima is a Japanese American artist, born and bred in NYC. She received and promptly did nothing with her psychobiology degree from SUNY Binghamton and instead went to work at a headhunting company to quickly pay off her student loans. Then somehow ended up spending much of her career working for Interior Design magazine. In 2009, she took her first ceramic class and has not stopped working in clay since. Her functional and sculptural works are inspired by stories and the environment and the way they influence our lives.
    she/her

    @kayk_ceramics
    kaykojima.com

  • Sarah Leber | Instructor

    Sarah Leber is a ceramicist and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds two degrees from Hunter College, the first in Political Science and the second in Art. Although her art degree initially focused on photography, Sarah discovered her deep affection for ceramics when she was invited to serve as a Teacher's Assistant at Hunter College after graduating. The experience ignited a profound connection with the medium, as Sarah came to appreciate the artistic potential of ceramics and the inherent lessons in patience it imparts. Throughout the pandemic, Sarah's passion for clay only intensified, leading her to establish her own studio named Orange Barn Studio, situated in upstate New York, approximately 1.5 hours north of NYC. Sarah Leber derives immense joy from her ceramic creations and takes equal delight in sharing her knowledge and experiences with others, as she passionately introduces them to the wonders and endless possibilities of working with clay. she/her

    SarahLeber.com
    @orangebarnstudios

  • Joanne Lee | Private Lesson Teacher

    Joanne Lee is a Brooklyn based ceramicist and designer with a long history in the fashion and home decor industries. Her ceramics journey began in 2014 in a weekly wheel throwing class, and her work is inspired by the feeling of a sunny Sunday. She is currently CEO, head ceramicist, and intern for her brand Sunday Studio.
    she/her

    @jleehello
    sundaystudioshop.com

  • Marie Leocadie | Private Lesson Teacher

    Marie Leocadie is a Brooklyn-based ceramics artist, originally from Paris and raised in Montreal. She holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and brings nearly a decade of wheel-throwing experience to her work, infusing playful spontaneity and vibrant personality into porcelain. Her exploration of altered forms and surface designs invites curiosity. In addition to evolving her own style, she teaches wheel throwing and hand-building, enriching Brooklyn's artistic community.
    she/her

    @leocadiestudio
    leocadiestudio.com

  • Camila Lim-Hing | Instructor

    Camila is a Chinese-Hispanic multi-media artist based in Brooklyn, New York. They have been consistently doing ceramics since 2014, partaking in both hand building and wheel throwing; integrating functionality, sculpture, and painting. Their work focuses on exploring belonging in a queer and multi-ethnic community. She is currently a kiln technician and teaches wheel throwing and handbuilding classes around New York City.
    they/she

    @limsclay
    limsclay.com

  • Levi Mahan | Instructor

    Levi Mahan is a second generation potter from Seagrove, North Carolina. He spent the last decade running his wood-fired, production pottery from his hometown, using clay and glaze materials sourced locally. He moved to Brooklyn in 2022 and now spends his days adapting his decidedly rural practice into his Red Hook studio. he/him

    @levi_mahan
    levimahan.com

  • Sam Mendez | Instructor

    Sam Mendez is a ceramic artist originally from Florida, now living in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from the University of Florida and has been teaching wheel throwing for 5+ years. Sam likes to explore texture, form and color through her functional pottery, while her sculptural vessels serve as poignant mementos for the experiences that shaped her.
    she/her

    @samonelllllla

  • Payton Meyer | Instructor

    Payton started taking ceramics classes as a Covid hobby in early 2021– just a few months before moving from her hometown of Boulder, CO to Brooklyn– and the rest was history. She fell in love with the craft, specifically how interdisciplinary it is, and how there’s always more to learn. She now spends almost every single day in the studio sharing her passion with as many people as possible and helping them to unearth their own love of ceramics. Payton’s own work features both wheel thrown and hand built pieces, ranging from functional housewares to more decorative concepts that are sleek and minimalistic in style, playing with the contrast of raw and glazed finishes. When she’s not in the studio, she finds joy in traveling, singing, secondhand shopping, and spending quality time with her loved ones, especially when the sun is shining.
    she/her

    @thecontainerwhore.nyc

  • Christian Moses | Instructor

    Christian Moses is a Brooklyn Native multidisciplinary artist, whose work explores New York City’s rich history and dimensionality. He investigates colloquial histories and ornamentation—from fashion, to cartoons, to hairstyles, to jewelry—to interrogate and elucidate his understanding of his changing home. He is deeply guided by his sense of community, and has a passion for sharing information. he/him

    @sistertomato

  • Josephine Noel | Instructor

    Josephine Noel Is a full time ceramicist and designer. In 2012 she started a Ceramic focused brand called Recreation Center.  Her work draws inspiration from Bauhaus and Modernists design while creating work that is meant for everyday use and enjoyment.  She lives and works in Brooklyn NY. she/her

    @josephinenoel
    recreationcentershop.com

  • Ian Privett | Instructor

    Ian Privett, is a New York born and based multimedia artist with a primary focus in ceramics. Often anthropomorphic, his teapots, figurative sculpture, lighting and vessels draw from pop-culture and traditional ceramics alike. With source material ranging from American animation of the last century to ancient pottery, his work contains oscillations between kitsch, everyday forms and elaborate ritual objects. He graduated from MICA in 2015 with a BFA in General Fine Arts.
    he/him

    @idkwhoian

  • Carly Ransford | Private Lesson Instructor

    Carly is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. They love experimenting with new creative forms, and often use their poetry to inspire art, or art to inspire poetry! Curious about relationships of all kinds, their work typically explores issues of memory, identity, community, and belonging. They also love playful colors, organic shapes, and bringing dreamscapes to life! Carly can't wait to collaborate and learn from their peers. they/them

    @carlyransford

  • Macayla Sandusky | Instructor

    Macayla is a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn. They received a BFA from the University of Arkansas (2017) and have since worked professionally in the ceramic industry cultivating experience. Their work consists of small monuments, objects, and relics from concepts that are enigmatic and excavated in the past. Clay as a material provides a tangible interaction with a nonlinear concept of time portrayed in their sculptures and pottery.
    she/they

  • Lucy Schaeffer | Private Lesson Instructor

    Lucy earned a BA in Fine Art from Yale University, where she studied Painting and Printmaking. She taught art in Italy, and later lived in Brooklyn for 15 years as a commercial photographer. She fell in love with ceramics at her first BKLYN Clay class in 2018. Lucy now divides her time between both pursuits, with photography clients that include Starbucks, Chipotle, and The Food Network, and ceramics that she makes in her garage studio in Croton on Hudson for Uncommon Goods, Global Table Soho and others.

    @lucyschaeffer
    lucyschaeffer.com

  • Bobby Singer | Private Lesson Instructor

    Bobby is an artist and production potter from San Francisco, California. His knowledge of clay crosses many disciplines between traditional pottery and ceramic sculpture; through his ongoing work and teaching, clay remains at the center of his practice.
    he/him

    @bullsingerxx
    www.bobbysingerstudio.com

  • Hae Won Sohn | Instructor

    Hae Won Sohn is an artist from Seoul. Hae Won received her BFA in Ceramic Craft from the College of Design at Kookmin University and MFA in Ceramics from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her studio practice is a conceptual and tactile study on the transposable relationship between the negative and positive, process and product, artisanship and art, and so on. Through her teaching practice she continuously revisits foundational techniques and explores the varied meanings behind the act of creation.
    she/her

    @haewsohn
    haewonsohn.com

  • Ye'ela (Ela) Wilschanski | Instructor

    Ye'ela (Ela) Wilschanski is an interdisciplinary artist. Her wheel thrown / hand built ceramics musical instruments are incorporated into her wearable sculptures. She received her MFA from Hunter College and BFA in ceramics from Bezalel Academy. she/her

    yeelawilschanski.com
    @ye.ela

  • Michele Xiaoyun Fan | Instructor

    Michele has been working with ceramics since 2015. She implements various techniques to make her work, including wheel throwing, hand building and slip casting. Michele studied photography at Syracuse University and art history at Christie's Education. She views clay as a humble material that can reflect the personality of its creator.
    she/her

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