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COURTNEY FITZGIBBON
is a Maryland native who attended Washington College, where she completed both her BA and Masters degrees. Courtney is a certified art teacher with 7 years of teaching experience in Maryland public schools. She has experience in numerous art mediums and is excited to teach children’s classes at Baltimore Clayworks.
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CAROLYN PHILLIPS
Carolyn has worked at Baltimore Clayworks for 2 years as a Community Arts teacher, teaching at multiple sites including the Forest Park senior Center, Robert Coleman Elementary, Chinquapin Middle School, Pimlico Road, and many others. She is a retired Baltimore City art teacher, certified to teach K-12 and taught a variety of media for 30 years.
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ARIEL PLANTZ
Ariel graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Ceramics and has been working at Clayworks as a teaching artist since 2006 with communities throughout Park Heights and Mount Washington. She co-teaches the Pimlico Road Afterschool Program, integrating ceramics into the afterschool curriculum. Ariel is an Americorps volunteer, and in the Community Art Corps working in partnership with MICA and Baltimore Clayworks.
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SARAH HOUSE
is a Baltimore native who attended Temple University’s Tyler School of Art where she earned her BFA in Ceramics/Glass in 2006. Upon graduation she received the prestigious Windgate Fellowship for emerging artists. Sarah used the fellowship opportunity to travel to Hungary where she became an Artist in Residence at the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemet. She currently resides in Baltimore is an instructor at The Community College of Baltimore County Essex as well as Baltimore Clayworks.
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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.”
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RACHEL ROBINSON
Rachel is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art's Masters of Arts in Community Arts program, Robinson has been at Clayworks since September 2006. She has both assisted and taught all ages of students in a variety of settings including after school programs. She has been the residency coordinator and workshop technician for visiting artists at Clayworks and was a part of developing children's summer camp programs on site. Rachel is co-directing the Community Arts program at Baltimore Clayworks.
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HERB MASSIE
has been teaching at Baltimore Clayworks since September of 2000. He coordinates teaching sites for the Community Arts Program and is the site Manager for the satellite studio at Pimlico Road Arts and Community Center. He participated in and led public community art projects including “Discovering Community: The History of East Baltimore” at Dunbar Middle school, the “Memorial: Tiffany Square” project, “And still I Rise” at St. Frances Academy, and “The Parkway Community” mural, among many others. He teaches the senior adult classes for Community Arts as well as youth programs. He is co-directing the Community Arts program at Baltimore Clayworks. Back to Top -
MELISSA HARRISON
Melissa has a BFA in art with a concentration in graphic design and ceramics from UNC-Greensboro and is certified Pre-K- 12 art teacher. She works with a primary focus in painting and personal expression. Melissa finds that immersing children to art improves their self-esteem and provides a variety of ways to express their vital thoughts and feelings. Melissa has been working with Baltimore Clayworks’ Community Arts Program for two years.
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LAURA COHEN
Laura is a community artist, AmeriCorps Community Art Corps member and teaching artist at Baltimore Clayworks. She has her B.S in Art Education from the University of Vermont, is a licensed art teacher in Massachusetts and has been teaching social justice based arts programming in Baltimore City for the past two years through AmeriCorps, Child First Authority and Baltimore Clayworks. She is a candidate for a Master of Arts in Community Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
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JANELLE GANG
New this year to the Clayworks Family from Buffalo, New York, Janelle graduated with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Art Education from Daemen College in 2006. After graduating Janelle taught in the public schools for two years, as well as taught clay at a local pottery studio. Janelle teaches and interns for Baltimore Clayworks and takes classes at the Mt. Washington location.
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ELIZABETH RYAN HOECKEL
Elizabeth was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, where she attended the Carver Center for Arts magnet school, studied fine arts and photography, and earned her diploma in 1997. She moved to Chicago at the age of 17, having earned a merit scholarship to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied printmaking, photography, painting, drawing, creative writing, and art history. After graduating in 2001 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Beth lived and worked in New York City for 2 years, followed by 4 years in Los Angeles. Beth paints, draws, uses collage, and photography to create art in Baltimore.
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KAYLEIGH PORTER
Kayleigh 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.
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COURTNEY GOVER
Courtney is a certified Spanish teacher, tutor, and professional on-line rater for the Educational Testing Service, who has been making functional pottery on the wheel for the last four years. She has studied Ceramics at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, The Potter's Guild of Baltimore, and Baltimore Clayworks. Currently, she has taken up hand building and sculpture and is enjoying teaching children again at Baltimore Clayworks. Her days are also busy raising her son Darby.
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SARA ALLRED
Sara is a teaching artist with several years experience teaching art in Boston, Chicago, and Baltimore. Sara has taught with Baltimore Clayworks' Community Arts program since January of 2007, teaching weekend classes for young people as well as Parent & Child workshops and has also taught several arts integrated units in Baltimore City Schools through a partnership with Arts Every Day. Sara graduated with a BFA from Mass Art in 2004, and is currently pursuing a master's degree at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Sara makes and sells her own pottery out of her home studio.
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