Nancy Selvage, Ceramics Program Director
Shawn Panepinto, Ceramics Program Coordinator
Ji Eun Kim, Ceramics Program Staff Assistant
Trish Adams
BA New England Conservatory of Music; former instructor at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Middlesex School. Her large-scale sculptures and functional vessels explore the forceful movement of the wheel. Her animal sculptures capture the power of stillness.
Jay Bordage
MFA Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), Boston; teaching at SMFA, DeCordova Museum, New Art Center, Chester College. Jay exhibits nationally and his work focuses on the body through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, photography, video, and performance.
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.
Lisa Houck
MFA Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lisa is interested in creating a world of
color and pattern, with compositions that are complex enough to suggest something new each time you view
the artwork. Clay and mosaics are her media for public art projects.
Dennis McLaughlin
Dennis McLaughlin spent twenty years working as a studio potter in southwestern Minnesota,
often using the local clays and minerals to make his vessels. His interest in a variety of folk
traditions continues to influence his stoneware forms and surfaces.
Allison Newsome
MFA Rhode Island School of Design; recent artist in residence at Beatice Wood Center for the Arts,
Ojai California. Through her work Allison explores fundamental, utilitarian methods implemented on
our land and water.
Shawn Panepinto
Ridgewood College of Art Diploma; Boston Museum School Diploma; former instructor at Boston
Museum School. Shawn's work is the direct result of her observations and reactions and typically
shows her background in painting, sculpture, and graphic design while revealing her unique sense of humor.
Lucy Scanlon
BA in Geology in Harvard College; MFA in Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design; previous instructor of ceramics at Rhode Island School of Design. Lucy makes hand built and wheel thrown functional pottery, often incorporating animal and water motifs.
Forrest Snyder
MFA, Alfred University, NY. Forrest Snyderfs artistic interests include history, technology, architecture,
sculpture, mixed media and all those funny places they intersect. He is the founder and editor of the online
journal Critical Ceramics. http://www.criticalceramics.org.
Stephanie Young
BFA in Sculpture, Art Institute of Boston, Ceramics studio manager and instructor New Art Center, Newton, MA.
Instructor at Wheelock College. Stephanie creates functional vessels and sculpture with a wide range of clay
materials, hand building and wheel throwing techniques and firing methods.
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.
