Teaching style:
As a hand-building instructor, Debby provides an organized yet relaxed and inviting learning experience. Through demonstration of hand-building techniques and sharing works of other clay artists, she motivates and inspires. Students work independently, and Debby provides feedback as needed to help students develop and explore their own creative expression through coil, slab, or pinch methods of building.

Teaching style:
Chase enjoys teaching all students with different levels of experience. Whether it’s through answering questions, demonstrations, feedback, or guided activities, Chase is always there to help her students grow. By introducing them to new ideas, techniques, and tools, she hopes to encourage her students and challenge them as artists.

Teaching style:
Loren leads a majority of our glaze + kiln workshops, and intermediate-advanced wheel classes. For specialty workshops, he likes to provide lecture-based curriculum with some demonstrations. For all other hands-on classes, Loren provides demonstration and encourages guided exploration and creative freedom for students within their own projects. He likes to provide constructive criticism to help challenge students to improve their skills.

Teaching style:
Marialice cultivates an encouraging environment of learning, providing guided activities and demonstrations to her students. She enjoys providing hands-on instruction and improvements to students, so they get the correct hand and body posture for proper throwing techniques.

Teaching style:
Nicole is our youth and family instructor and also leads private and specialty workshops. She provides extensive demonstrations, so there is clear direction for the students to follow. After reviewing the project, she likes to encourage creative freedom for students to explore in clay, while providing hands-on support when needed.

Teaching style:
Joy enjoys teaching a variety of wheel and handbuilding classes. She starts each class with general demonstration of what the class will be working on. Then, she works with each student individually to troubleshoot and encourage creativity. Joy loves helping to find the techniques that work for each individual.

Teaching style:
As an outreach program and Wheel 1 instructor, Nicole likes to provide demonstrations and hands-on instruction for her students. She sets a guided activity for students to follow but encourages creative freedom. Nicole likes to provide constructive feedback to students to help ensure that students are challenging themselves to improve their skills and forms.

Teaching style:
Within the classroom, Summer’s main goal is to inspire and foster creativity. She provides detailed instructions of what the class will be working on and then delivers one-on-one guidance with students depending on their personal needs. As a handbuilding and wheel-throwing instructor, Summer enjoys problem solving and coming up with ways her students can accomplish their goals.

Teaching style:
As a Wheel 1 instructor, Sara likes to provide demonstrations and hands-on instructions for her students. Sara likes to show a wide variety of techniques, forms, and tips in her demonstrations and encourages her students to have creative freedom as they practice their craft. She likes to provide individual feedback to ensure students are being challenged and growing their skills as a potter and artist.

Teaching style:
With her background in Art Therapy, Kathryn believes in the intrinsic healing power of art making and the creative process. As an instructor, she encourages students of all skill levels to lean into the creative process by promoting relaxation, encouraging problem solving, providing demos for building a new skill, exploring expression, connecting with others in shared experience, and ultimately, having fun with it!

Kathryn enjoys creating a laid back environment where making mistakes is just part of the process and can often lead to new ways of exploring self expression.