Alex Olson

Born in Seattle, Washington, Alex Olson was raised by a family of artists—his mother a painter and his father a photographer. He spent summers growing up on Stuart Island, Washington, where exploring the remote wilderness fostered a deep attentiveness to and appreciation for the rhythms of the natural landscape. Before studying ceramics, Alex worked primarily in woodturning and photography. He earned a B.A. in Studio Art from Carleton College in 2018, where his artistic practice expanded to include ceramics. Through his artistic career, Alex strives to cultivate an ever-curious studio practice, share his passion for craftsmanship, and inspire creativity in…

Alli Olson

Bernhard Masterson

Bernhard Masterson is an accomplished artist who fuses a deep commitment to sustainable systems and a rich sense of aesthetics to create unique living environments. Trained as a sculptor and educator Bernhard has focused on natural building since 2002. He has worked with straw, wood, and unfired clay to create tiny homes, benches, rocket mass heaters, earthen ovens, Rumford fireplaces, murals, and community. Bernhard is a positive and insightful teacher who derives deep satisfaction from empowering others to pursue their visions.

BillieJo Scharfenberg

Chris Alveshere

Chris is a studio artist originally from North Dakota, currently living and working in Missoula, MT. He maintains a full-time studio practice in addition to teaching adult and youth arts programming. Chris received undergraduate degrees in ceramics and art education from Minnesota State University Moorhead, MN, and his MFA in ceramics from Alfred University, NY. He is co-owner of Workroom Montana, a community arts center in Missoula, MT, and Flecks + Specks, a colored ceramic grog business.

Claire Roszkowski

Danny Meisinger

Danny Meisinger has been a professional potter for nearly 40 years. With little formal education in ceramics, he has relied on clay itself—with all of its trials, discoveries, and victories—as his greatest teacher. Although Danny is often known for making large-scale work, that represents only a small part of his practice. His work ranges from pieces made with a half-pound of clay to forms requiring as much as 400 pounds, with the majority of his work using 10 pounds of clay or less. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching has become an increasingly important part of Danny’s practice. He loves teaching…

Deana Bada Maloney

Deana Bada Maloney has been an observer of nature all her life. She is continually awestruck by the beauty of the natural world and the magic and mystery found within every living thing. Her work is a study of living forms, celebrating both the structure of how something is made and the transcendental presence of the subject. Deana holds a BFA in Drawing and Painting from the Art Institute of Chicago, where she developed a strong focus on anatomy and scientific illustration. She has found sculpture to be another vehicle through which she can express the beauty, stories, and intricate…

Helen Klebesadel

Jayne King

Jayne King (b. 1999) is the daughter of a family of artists. Her mother, a textile artist; her father, a darkroom photographer; and her grandpa, a painter, encouraged her creatively and nurtured her interests in material and narrative from the earliest of ages. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2022), King spent her time enrolled there focusing on ceramics, object collection, and book making, while simultaneously studying the craft histories that would come to inform her practice. Her hand-painted ceramic vessels examine the malleability of memory and function of personal myth by reconsidering heirloom…

Jessie Rebik

Jessie Rebik is a figurative photo-realistic painter who received her BFA from Clarke College (Dubuque, IA) and her MFA from Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, FL). She spent almost twenty years as an art professor teaching drawing, painting, color theory, 2D design, professional development, and more. Recently, she shifted to the Program Development role at Bluff Strokes Art Center in Dubuque, IA. Here, she continues to teach a wide variety of art classes to students of all experience levels, as well as develop curriculum to meet the community needs and interests. Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries, museums,…

Joe Cole

A native of Washington State, Joe began making pottery in 1999 at Cornell College. He went on to make pots at Haystack School of Crafts in Maine and the Rochester Folk Art Guild in Rochester, NY before beginning a two-year apprenticeship with internationally renowned wood-fired potter Mark Hewitt in Pittsboro, NC. After his apprenticeship, Joe worked as a journeyman potter for Dover Pottery and King’s Pottery in the historic pottery community of Seagrove, NC. He also worked with local materials clay and glaze development at STARworks Ceramics, Materials, and Research, and taught wood-firing and kiln building at Central Carolina Community…

Joelle White

Jon Stein

Jon Stein is a potter and educator from Cincinnati, Ohio. Before completing his BFA at Northern Kentucky University, he traveled to Japan to study traditional wood-firing techniques. After graduating, he worked with artists with developmental disabilities, reinforcing his belief that creative experiences with clay enhance quality of life. He pursued an MFA at Utah State University and focused his research on the use of glazes in atmospheric firing. In 2019, he returned to Cincinnati to serve as Education Director at Queen City Clay. Teaching opportunities, artist residencies, and pottery festivals continue to shape his studio practice.

Jon Townley

Jon began throwing pots in high school at the age of fifteen and went on to receive his BFA in ceramics from Ohio State University, where he developed an understanding of form and technique through studying the Japanese ceramics tradition. Since 2010 he has maintained his studio in Katonah, New York, developing an original body of decorative and sculptural ceramics using the techniques of throwing and altering, coil construction, innovative slab forming, and carving. Jon has taught multiple workshops and currently teaches hand building and advanced throwing classes at Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York.

Katie White

Kay Brathol-Hostvet

Kay Brathol-Hostvet is an upbeat, enthusiastic, and supportive instructor bringing a wealth of experiences to the classroom. In addition to working as a professional artist, she has been teaching workshops in drawing, design, pastel and acrylic painting, and professional development for many years. Kay is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stout, with concentrations in drawing and painting. Her works are in corporate and private collections around the U.S.A. and abroad. Her acrylic paintings are included in North Light Books, AcrylicWorks 2: Radical Breakthroughs, and…

Kippian Inglis

Kippian Ingles was introduced to plant-based dyes after more than 30 years of dyeing wool with acid dyes for the quilting market. What she discovered transformed her love of color and reshaped her creative work, inspiring her to help move fiber arts toward more sustainable and safer practices. Stitching has always been a source of joy and comfort for Kippian. Her passion for teaching began during her college years as part of her costume design program, and she later held second jobs teaching both machine and handwork at quilt shops during the growing popularity of quilting. After retiring, Kippian decided…

Linda Christianson

Having made pots now for about 40 years, I am surprised that it is still both a hopeful and troublesome effort to make a decent pot. The qualities that I search for in my work are fairly straight forward yet elusive. I am interested in a pot that does its duty well yet can stand on its own as a visual object. Woodfiring offers the forms a quiet surface that hopefully retains the essence of the clay itself. These pots are not sculpture; they seem to act more like engaging tools than anything else. _____ Linda Christianson is an independent…

Lisa Humke

Lisa Humke spent 29 years teaching and learning alongside high school students. She earned her undergraduate degree from UW–Madison in 1990 and her master’s degree from Fielding Graduate University in 2009. Lisa is currently an instructor at Adamah Art Studios in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. She enjoys creating clay sculptures that incorporate mixed media, including found objects, collage, and glass. She also loves experimenting with a variety of firing techniques, from raku to wood firing. Artist Statement My work is rooted in the exploration of the human condition—those shared threads of love, politics, family, and emotion that bind us all, regardless of…

Melanie Bisbach

Melanie Bisbach grew up in Dodgeville Wisconsin, where she spent most of her time outdoors exploring the unique ecosystem of the driftless region. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (BFA, 2023) majoring in interdisciplinary studio arts and minoring in art history. While at UW-Platteville Bisbach served as studio manager and TA for the ceramics department. Bisbach additionally received grants and scholarships to pursue ceramic based research, including a summer research and professional development grant. From 2020–2023 Bisbach interned at Adamah Art Studios, and from 2023-2024 she served as Adamah’s studio manager. Bisbach is currently pursuing her MFA in studio art…

Nick DeVries

Nick DeVries has been working in ceramics for the past 19 years. He studied at St John’s University where, in 2001, he finished a Bachelor’s Degree in Art, with a concentration in painting and ceramics. Since his college years Nick has worked as a production potter for a Minneapolis bases pottery, taught courses at the Edina Art Center and Northern Clay Center, and has pursued his own studio ceramic work. He exhibits his work in galleries nationally. Currently he lives in Brainerd MN where he works full time as a ceramic artist. DeVries is represented by ceramics galleries nationally and…

Rehann Vazid

Rehann Vazid is a Melbourne-based watercolor artist and educator known for his bold, light-filled landscapes and his immediate, expressive approach to the medium. At the heart of his philosophy is a belief that painting is an act of memory-making, a counterbalance to an age where technology increasingly replaces our ability to see and think. Through his work, Rehann invites us back into presence, perception and the joy of experiencing the world directly. Website

Sara Torgison

Sara Torgison (San Diego, CA b. 1987) is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus in ceramics and fiber art. She received an MFA from the University of Cincinnati Department of Design, Architecture in 2021, Art and Planning and a BFA from Cal Poly Humboldt in Arcata, CA in 2011. Her work often blends media, extending finite and fragile surfaces to emphasize and inhabit marginal spaces. Sara is currently Visiting Ceramics Faculty at Miami University in Oxford. She has participated in various artist residencies including Red Lodge Clay Center, Queen City Clay, and Penland School of Craft where she was awarded…

Stacy Hilton Klutzke

Madison based watercolor painter and ceramicist, Stacy Hilton Klutzke, has been creating art for more than 20 years. Having been a teacher nearly as long as she has been an artist, Stacy thrives on bringing the joy of watercolor to others. While her strengths lay in portraiture and realism, Stacy has been recently exploring abstract painting, focusing on colors and composition while also delving into unique application techniques to create abstract landscapes.

Steven Hill

Firing: I took my first pottery class in 1970 and have been a full time potter since 1976. My first firing experience was at a salt glaze workshop, taught by Peter Sohngen at the Memphis Academy of Arts, in the summer of 1972. Ever since then I’ve been chasing the atmospheric surface quality that I fell in love with that summer. For the rest of 1972 and 1973 I continued to salt glaze. From 1975 – 2008 I fired ^10 gas reduction and achieved atmospheric-like surfaces through the use of sprayed and layered glazes. Since December of 2008 I have…

Todd Hayes

Todd Hayes received an Associate of Arts and Sciences from Utah Valley University in 2004, a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Utah State University in 2007, and an MFA, from Wichita State University in 2010. Before attending university, Todd worked as a carpenter, industrial mold fabricator and designer of architectural elements. He spent much of his childhood in the outdoors where he gained a great appreciation for nature. His ceramic work is influenced by these experiences, looking at the balance of nature and our constructed realities. Todd’s work has been exhibited nationally in group and solo exhibitions and included in…

Tony Young

Tony Young graduated from Bowling Green State University and works primarily from his home studio in Ohio. He is a High School ceramics teacher who is in his 20th year education. He loves teaching art and especially has a passion for ceramics. He was primarily a sculptor until 2017 and since has focused on functional ceramics. Slip casting cups gave him a vehicle to dabble in the functional, and since he’s begun to make the majority of his work on the wheel. Tony’s work has been accepted into more than 25 exhibitions in the past few years and was published…

Laura Williams

Laura Williams is a UK born, midwestern ceramic artist whose practice explores material, narrative, color, and play. Laura studied ceramics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She currently resides in a travel trailer with her partner and their two cats traveling to teach workshops and exhibit her ceramics. Laura is a returning instructor at Adamah. Her classes foster a supportive environment for exploration and learning. See more about Laura’s work and practice www.laurawilliamstudio.com

Mike Griffin

Mike is a self-taught potter who found his love of clay while living in the Alfred, NY area. He started making functional work in 2008 and has found his way to a noticeable style in hand-building. Since then, he has taught many workshops and classes along the way.  

Richard Wehrs

Richard Wehrs has been researching, exploring, and making sculptural ceramic faces and figures for over forty years. He has an MFA in studio art from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville; he majored in ceramics and has a minor in art history of indigenous cultures.