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RONNI ARONIN is a founding member of Baltimore Clayworks and current resident artist and has been creating production porcelain since completing graduate level courses at Towson University in 1980. Her utilitarian porcelain work is adorned by vigorous and brightly colored brushwork. Over a career spanning nearly 3 decades Ronni has made her living selling her work nationally through a variety of competitive wholesale and retail craft fairs.

LORNA AWALT began taking pottery courses at Baltimore Clayworks in 1998 and became obsessed with the process of making functional pottery. Lorna currently lives and works in Annapolis, MD and has been an instructor for Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts since 2007. She continues to attend workshops across the country when possible in addition to exhibiting and selling her artwork in area shows and galleries. Her functional pottery is influenced primarily by nature and music, and most of her pieces include altering and carving. Additional information and images of her current work are available at: www.adagiostudio.com

DEBORAH BEDWELL is executive director at Baltimore Clayworks and one of its founding artists. She has received much acclaim for her success in creating Clayworks’ community arts programs, which for more than 16 years have made the arts accessible to underserved individuals throughout Baltimore and the region. Her extensive knowledge of contemporary ceramics has taken her throughout the US and abroad where she has served as a panelist, curator, lecturer and workshop presenter. In addition she is an accomplished potter who continues to exhibit her clay work both locally and nationally.

JESSICA BROAD is a sculptor and previous Lormina Salter Fellowship recipient from 2005-06. She received her undergraduate degree from Maryland Institute College of Art and her masters from University of Arizona. Between 2007 and 2009 she has taught ceramics, sculpture and foundations courses at Longwood University. She was identified in the May 2006 Ceramics Monthly as an emerging artist and in 2007 she received a Maryland State Arts Council individual artist fellowship for her outstanding studio portfolio.

MICHELLE BROOKS graduated in 1998 with her B.S. Horticulture from NC State. She began working with clay in 1996 in NC and in 1999 she began teaching as a basic wheel instructor at Pullen Arts Center and Jordan Hall. Since moving to MD in 2001 she has been an instructor at Clayworks, the Frederick Pottery School and at the Art league School in Alexandria where she has been teaching basic wheel, intermediate wheel, teen wheel, children's clay camps and Raku & Saggar firings.

MARY CLOONAN is a Clayworks resident artist and sculptor. She holds her MFA from Syracuse University and her BS Fine Arts from Nazareth College. She is the ceramics professor at American University in Washington, DC and teaches after school programming at Park School, Brooklandville, MD. Mary has recently completed an artist-in-residence program at Tainan National University for the Arts in Tainan, Taiwan ROC.

JIM DUGAN is a resident artist of Baltimore Clayworks where he also manages all resident artists in addition to working as the wood kiln manager since the summer of 2005. He has been working with clay since 1995 where he attended California University of PA. Since that time he has spent 4 years as the studio manager at Touchstone Center for Crafts and 5 years as the kiln technician at Vermont Clay Studio. Since his arrival at Clayworks Jim has taught a variety of classes and introduced scores of students to the communal fun and magic of firing a 2-chamber noborigama style wood and salt kiln.

PEGGY FOWLER is one of the newest members of the Clayworks community, becoming a resident artist in the fall of 2007. Her small scale sculptural vessels are inspired by her observations of nature found in the Maryland landscape, her garden and the local farmer’s market. Her work has been featured in regional and national exhibitions and she recently received a purchase award in the 2008 International Orton Cone Box Show hosted by Baker University in Baldwin, KS.

YOSHI FUJII was the Baltimore Clayworks 2008–09 Lormina Salter Fellow and remains a current artist-resident in addition to joining the Clayworks staff as Gallery Associate in August 2009. Yoshi received his B.F.A from University of Southern Mississippi in 2002 and his M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2008. His interest is in wheel-thrown porcelain utilitarian and sculptural work. His current work and additional information is available at: www.yoshifujii.com

COURTNEY GOVER is a certified teacher who taught in the Baltimore City Public School system for four years. After the birth of her son, she started working for Baltimore Clayworks in the Community Arts Program at AFYA Public Charter School. She also teaches family workshops, birthday parties, Teen Clay, and children’s summer camps at the Mt. Washington Campus. She has studied Ceramics at The Potter’s Guild of Baltimore, The Penland School of Crafts, and at Baltimore Clayworks for the last five years. Courtney enjoys making wheel thrown pottery; hand built functional wares, as well as clay sculpture.

MATT HYLECKis a resident artist of Baltimore Clayworks whose outstanding functional pots earned him a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship award in Craft both in 2007 and 2005. He was identified in the May 2008 Ceramics Monthly as an “emerging artist” and his studio work has received multiple awards including the 2009 NCECA Biennial exhibition and 2009 Jersey Shore Clay National. Galleries throughout the mid-Atlantic have exhibited his sophisticated Shino-glazed utilitarian stoneware and porcelain. He currently serves as the education director for adult programs at Baltimore Clayworks Mt. Washington campus. You may view his recent work at www.matthewhyleck.com

JOANN KANDEL has been a resident artist and teacher at Baltimore Clayworks since 1998. Her whimsical porcelain tableware illustrates a variety of bird, amphibian and insect life. She is an accomplished studio artist and her pottery career began more than 12 years ago as a student here at Clayworks. Her greatest pleasures in the studio are with the complexities found in glaze application and in working with students new to clay.

TRISHA KYNER has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in ceramics from the University of Montana, Missoula. She has recently moved to Baltimore from the San Francisco bay area where she taught both ceramics and sculpture. Her ceramic figures have been shown at Grounds For Sculpture in New Jersey and at the California Clay Conference in Davis, CA. She is also co-founder of the public sculpture collaborative “Grendel’s Mother.”

HAEJUNG LEE is the 2009–2010 Lormina Salter Fellow and the most recent artist-resident at Clayworks. Hae-Jung received her first Master of Fine Art concentrating on ceramics at Kyung Hee University in South Korea in 2002 and a second master’s degree in ceramics at Louisiana State University in 2008. She has been an Artist-in-residence at The Banff Centre in Canada and at Guldagergård-International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark in 2003 and 2004. She presents her work internationally and has been awarded several remarkable prizes such as best of show, award of distinction, silver prize as well as others in both Korea and USA. In summer 2009 she participated in the 5th World Ceramic Biannual Show Korea (CEBIKO) and directed the exhibition “Affinity” which also included many American ceramic artists. For additional information and images of her current work please visit www.haejunglee.com

SARAH MCCANN is a Baltimore based community artist that partners with individuals and organizations to facilitate projects that use existing systems of behavior to form deeper human relationships and create opportunities for reflection and growth. In addition to teaching at Baltimore Clayworks, she is currently the community artist-in-residence with the Stadium School Youth Dreamers, a non-profit organization dedicated to decreasing the amount of violence youth are exposed to after school by opening a youth run youth center. She is originally from Huntington, New York and received a B.S. in studio art from New York University. She moved to Baltimore in 2007 to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art MA in Community Arts program. Sarah has facilitated public and collaborative projects in Baltimore and looks forward to continuing her work in Baltimore City and other urban centers.

SONYA MEEKER has been a resident artist for over 8 years with Baltimore Clayworks. She began her clay career first as a student in the Clayworks classrooms in 1996. Over the years she has pushed and refined her delicate stoneware and porcelain while continuing to explore and expand her glaze vocabulary. Sonya spends her days working as a researcher at the Johns Hopkins University while working in her studio late in to the night.

FAYE MENIS graduated with a BFA from Alfred University in 2000. She recently taught at Catonsville Community College where she was the ceramic technician since 2006. Faye has over 6 years of teaching experience from Vermont Clay Studio, Shelburne Craft School, Studio 250, and was a resident artist at Anderson Ranch in 2001. Faye is a fabulous studio potter who has recently begun the life-long quest of motherhood and she is excited to get her hands dirty again.

AMANDA PELLERIN is a resident artist at Baltimore Clayworks, where she creates her sculpture and handbuilt functional works. She is a teacher at Clayworks, Maryland Hall and other venues, where her mosaic classes and workshops have produced wonderful student work. Amanda received her BFA from Maine College of Art and her MFA in Studio Ceramics from Towson University.

KAYLEIGH PORTER is an undergraduate student at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD, majoring in ceramics. Kay is involved in community arts projects such as the Community Milagros mural at the Good Shepherd Center, initiated by the center, artist Laura Jean McLaughlin and Baltimore Clayworks and funded by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Kay is a ceramics instructor at Good Shepherd in Halethorpe, MD, where she helps adolescent women therapeutically develop through clay.

VOLKER SCHOENFLIESS is one of the founding member artists of Baltimore Clayworks and he is a graduate of Towson University. In addition to being an instructor with Clayworks for 27 years Volker is an instructor at the Baltimore School for the Arts and the JCC at Owings Mills. His narrative figurative ceramic work illustrates a wry sense of humor and whimsical take on human nature.

TIM SHERMAN received a BS in art and design from Towson University in 2010 with a concentration in ceramics. His work on the potter’s wheel began in high school and he continues to make and sell pottery in the Baltimore area. His current work addresses issues of utility and woodfiring; specifically the atmospheric effects of ash and salt on clay and glazes, while maintaining usability, comfort and beauty. Tim has worked as a Baltimore Clayworks Noborigama intern since the summer 2009.

LESLIE SHELLOW has a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from Towson University. She has 3 years experience as a high school ceramics and photography teacher and has been a student at Baltimore Clayworks for the past 4 years. In the past 3 years she has taught teen wheel and clay after school in addition to adult Try It classes and summer workshops for teens.

GARY SLAVINSKY holds a BFA from Alfred University in New York and an MFA from MICA in Baltimore. Gary has been a teacher at Clayworks since fall 2007 and continues to explore and refine his wheel thrown and hand-built ceramic expressions. His teaching experience ranges from college level ceramic foundations to working with pre-school age youngsters. He is currently working for Union Memorial Hospital leading online marketing efforts. You may review his work at: www.garyslavinsky.com

COLLETTE SMITH is a resident artist of Baltimore Clayworks who seriously entered into a studio career after spending two years in Cali, Colombia, as a Peace Corps volunteer. She has taught and exhibited her sumptuously glazed functional pots at Baltimore Clayworks; Silvermine Guild of Artists in New Canaan, Connecticut; Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies, New Jersey; and at the Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York.

MARLENE SOKOLOSKI-SANDLER is one of the founding members of Baltimore Clayworks. She is a long time resident of Mt. Washington, and has remained actively involved in the clay community. Marlene has been an art educator for over 30 years, and now teaches several children’s classes at our Mt. Washington studios. Her own work, in porcelain and celadon, incorporates stamps and impressions made in the clay, inspired by her own work within the community.

BRIAN J. TAYLOR received his BFA from Utah State University and recently completed his MFA at the New York School of Ceramics at Alfred University. He has worked as a resident artist for several art centers including The Mendocino Art Center, Watershed Center for Art and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Brian combines a broad range of technique and process to create his functional pottery. By referencing both manufactured and handmade objects, his work draws on contradictions in material culture about value and how things are made.

JOE VITEK started with Baltimore Clayworks in 1987, and was a resident until 1995. Joe worked as hospital corpsman/medical illustration tech, and a production medical artist. In 1964 he started working with clay while at the Corcoran, studied in Tamba, Japan and has been a functional potter ever since.

SAM WALLACE is a traditional Jamaican potter who became a resident artist and kiln technician for Baltimore Clayworks in 1993. His work has been featured in numerous regional and national exhibitions. He was a featured demonstrator for the 1995 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Conference. Sam continues to teach and exhibit his work primarily through a wide range of artist residencies throughout Baltimore City, surrounding counties, and the neighboring mid-Atlantic region, including New Hampshire, Virginia and Pennsylvania.

LARS WESTBY is a resident artist of Baltimore Clayworks whose earthenware sculpture has been exhibited in prestigious galleries in the Baltimore area region and across the U.S. and Taiwan. Notably Lars was a recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship award in Craft both in 2005 and 2007. In spring 2007 he completed a 4 month artist-residency at Tainan National University for the Arts in Tainan, Taiwan ROC.

DINA WESTON-SNEAD completed her MFA at Syracuse University in 2007 and she holds a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art and Design. She has taught as an adjunct instructor at Syracuse University, Towson University and Goucher College. Her figurative ceramic works confront the vulnerabilities of human interaction and relationships. Interested in social disparities and cultural differences, she places her figures into situations that call a response within the viewer.

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