Jay Bordage
MFA The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), Boston; teaching at SMFA, DeCordova Museum,
New Art Center, Chester College. Bordage exhibits nationally and his work focuses on the body
through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, photography, video, and performance.
Jody Burr
MFA, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Prior Instructor and Director of Education
and Studio Operations at Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY. Recently moved to Boston
to pursue work in ceramic sculpture and design. Exhibits at Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
Wasma'a Chorbachi
PhD in Art History, Harvard University; artist, former Teaching
Fellow and Research Fellow at Harvard University; extensive research
and writing on Islamic Design and her cultural experience are vital resources
for her paintings, plates, tiles, and murals. Her work is in many museum collections
including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Wayne Fuerst
Studio potter, instructor at U. Mass Dartmouth and Mudflat Pottery School. His fresh and
spontaneous approach to altering forms and glaze painting creates lively sets of wheel thrown
functional pots. His expertise in a wide range of firing techniques includes a focus
on wood|fired ceramics.
Sam Gibsh
MBA Tel-Aviv University. Gibsh teaches ceramics and focuses on creating sculptural objects and
murals at his studio in Jaffa, Israel. His work is influenced by Jaffa's multicultural architecture
and he recently created a large mural for one of Jaffa's buildings, new Christian-Muslim high school.
He has exhibited his work at galleries and museums throughout Israel.
Pam Gorgone
BFA in ceramics from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Pam Gorgone has been a staff member,
teaching assistant, and course instructor at the Harvard Ceramics Program
and a Non-Resident Tutor and Instructor at Mather House, Harvard University. Her small scale sculptural work,
often focusing on sets and serial objects, has been described as quiet, meditative, and elemental.
Lisa Houck
BFA Rhode Island School of Design; MFA Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Her artwork has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous public and private collections,
including The Boston Athenaeum, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital, Boston, Dana
Farber Cancer Institute, Fidelity Investments, Hale and Dorr, Massachusetts General Hospital, and
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Debra Manley
Boston Public School Art Teacher at Mary Lyon K-8 School, Brighton where she created a large
community mural. Boston Teacher of the Year Award in 2005. Prior teaching experience and ceramics
studies at International School in Tokyo, Japan. Tile and mural studies at Harvard?s Ceramics Program
during her Mima Weissmann tuition award residency.
Dennis McLaughlin
Dennis McLaughlin has spent the past twenty years working as a studio potter in southwestern Minnesota,
and using the local clays and minerals to make his vessels. As he moves his studio to Boston, his interest
in a variety of folk traditions will continue to influence his stoneware forms and surfaces.
Shawn Panepinto
Ridgewood College of Art Diploma; Boston Museum School Diploma; former instructor at
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Shawnfs work is the direct result of her
observations and reactions. Her pieces typically demonstrate her backgrounds in painting,
sculpture, and graphic design while revealing her unique sense of humor.
Crystal Ribich
Participant in national and international workshops, kiln-building sessions, and specialized
firings with a wide range of artists throughout the United States. Workshop instructor at
Castle Hill, Truro, MA. Soda firing instructor and glaze researcher at the Ceramics Program,
Office for the Arts at Harvard.
Mary Roettger
M.F.A. New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Roettger is currently an adjunct
professor of ceramics at the University of Minnesota ?Twin Cities and at Northern Clay Center. Her
recent work is focused on hand built functional ware and complex sculptural forms. Her work has been
featured in national and international exhibitions and developed in residencies at Archie Bray Foundation
and Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Bonnie Seeman
A two-time recipient of the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, Bonnie was recently awarded
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Her work has been featured in numerous international
and national exhibitions and collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International
Museum of Ceramic Art, and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design.?he has given presentations on her work
throughout the US and is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Miami.
Nancy Selvage
MFA in Sculpture, Boston Museum School-Tufts University; former instructor at Boston Museum
School, Rhode Island School of Design, Ewha University, and Mass. College of Art. Nancy creates
work in response to the context of a specific site or situation.
Gay Smith
Gay Smith creates single fired porcelain ware in a soda kiln near Penland, NC.
She received a North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship in 2006, and her work
has been featured internationally in exhibitions, workshops, and publications, including a
feature article in the April 2007 issue of Ceramics Monthly. She studied ceramics as a Harvard
undergraduate in 1972-75.
Delanie Wise
Since her BS in Mathematics from Virginia Commonwealth University, Delanie Wise has focused on
studio art at Massachusetts College of Art and the Ceramics Program at the Office of Arts at Harvard -
where she has worked as a teaching assistant and course instructor. She throws and alters her work in
unexpected and whimsical ways and has shown her teapots nationally for the last five years.
Amy Woods
With a wide range of inventive sculptural techniques Amy Woods creates elaborate sets of serving and
presentation vessels that transform the entire dining experience. Table tops become abundant gardens
alive with snails and insects or oceans for fleets of vessels transporting dishes and seafood. Amy Woods is
an Artist in Residence at Harvard?s Ceramics Program with 13 years of teaching and exhibiting experience.
Pao-Fei Yang
Resident artist at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, creates imagery and patterns
in a vibrant range of colors with her inventive use of saggar firing. With her training as a painter,
Pao-Fei uses clay tiles as her canvas and copper wire as her drawing tool.
Stephanie Young
BFA in Sculpture, Art Institute of Boston, Ceramics studio manager and instructor New Art Center,
Newton, MA. Stephanie creates functional vessels and sculpture with a wide range of clay materials,
hand building and wheel throwing techniques and firing methods.
Sheryl Zacharia
Sheryl Zacharia's ceramics reflect her painting background and previous career as a singer-songwriter.
"Pattern is rhythm, palette is harmony, lines and shapes are lyrical." She exhibits her work nationally
and teaches at Greenwich House Pottery in New York City and the Art School at Old Church in Demarest New Jersey.
Meng Zhao
Ceramics concentration at National Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou China;
Gold Medal at the International Ceramic Art Competition in Faenza Italy; Winning Prize
at the International Ceramics Competition in Seoul, Korea.
