Our Incredible Teaching Staff!!!!!!!!!
Kirsten Bassion
Kirsten Bassion, owner and teacher, received her Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York in 2004. She did her undergraduate studies at Skidmore College where she majored in studio art and graduated in 1997. She uses beautifully bright colors, unusual glazes with hand carved textures and layers of underglazes to create unique and useful pottery. Her work is both in porcelain and dark brown stoneware.
Kirsten's work has been shown in galleries throughout the country. You can see more of Kirsten's work at www.kirstenbassion.com
Kirsten's work has been shown in galleries throughout the country. You can see more of Kirsten's work at www.kirstenbassion.com
Elizabeth Bocknick
Elizabeth Bocknick, Teacher and Studio Tech Extraordinaire, has been working in clay for over 20 years. She has been working with us since the beginning of The Clay School and is a wonderful resource. On top of being the studio's main technician/studio manager, Elizabeth teaches beginners to advanced students and brings a whimsical and gentle approach to clay and her classes.
Elizabeth has done the SOWA show in South Boston as well as other local craft shows. You can see Elizabeth's work at our annual Open Studios the weekend before Thanksgiving each year.
Elizabeth has done the SOWA show in South Boston as well as other local craft shows. You can see Elizabeth's work at our annual Open Studios the weekend before Thanksgiving each year.
Kimberly Allison
Kim Allison, teacher, is a studio potter in Salem, MA whose wheel-thrown and hand-built ceramics are inspired by Nordic nature, design, and culture. Kim is fascinated by pottery’s unique ability to convey visual and tactile experiences simultaneously. She uses porcelain forms with mishima inlay, carving techniques, and slipped surfaces to create or obscure texture in an effort to explore the relationship between what we see and what we feel when we interact with ceramics. Kim fell in love with clay in 2012 when she took her first ceramics class as a date night with her husband. She spent four years in classes and studio workshops with the amazing teachers at The Clay School before deciding in 2016 to shift careers and pursue ceramics full time. Born in Southern Massachusetts, Kim studied film production and graphic design at Boston University, graduating with a B.S. in 2005. She spent more than a decade as a corporate graphic designer in Boston. Her backgrounds in film and in design contribute to her love of storytelling and her enthusiasm for the art and joy of making by hand.
www.kallisonceramics.com
www.kallisonceramics.com
Zachary Mickelson
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Zachary Mickelson, teacher, is a potter and ceramic artist working out of the Boston area since 2010. He grew up in Gloucester, Massachussets surrounded by the vibrant arts community there. After studying sculpture and ceramic arts at Lewis and Clark College, Zac spent a year teaching English and making pottery. Since then he has been building a community in the Boston area, teaching at the Harvard Ceramics Program, Maud Morgan Arts, and now the Clay school.
More of Zachary's work can be found on his website http://zacharymickelson.wixsite.com/zachary-ceramics |
Colby Charpentier
Colby Charpentier, teacher, is an Artist in Residence at Harvard University and formerally at the Morean Center for Clay in St. Petersburg, Florida. He grew up in Smithfield, RI where he began building and firing wood kilns at the studio of Bruce Lenore. He went on to study ceramics and glass at Alfred University, where he graduated with a BFA in 2013. He then worked as a studio assistant to Chris Gustin and Daniel Clayman for three years, while engaged in an artist residency at Dew Claw Studios. He most recently completed a 6 month residency at Sonoma Ceramics in Sonoma, CA.
I am intrigued by ceramics as a peripheral material. It’s a material that we contact daily through tableware, sparkplugs, microchips, and architecture. By association with the vessel, clay is part of nearly every creation story across the world. The ubiquitous, shared experience of clay is democratizing, but contributes to its peripheral role. The project of my work is a both a challenge and celebration of ceramic materials and their associated vessel context. www.colbycharpentier.com/
I am intrigued by ceramics as a peripheral material. It’s a material that we contact daily through tableware, sparkplugs, microchips, and architecture. By association with the vessel, clay is part of nearly every creation story across the world. The ubiquitous, shared experience of clay is democratizing, but contributes to its peripheral role. The project of my work is a both a challenge and celebration of ceramic materials and their associated vessel context. www.colbycharpentier.com/