OFA Ceramics Staff and Teaching Artists

Amanda Aguiar

Staff, Teaching Assistant at Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Before joining the Ceramics Program as a Teaching Assistant and Lab Technician, Amanda began her journey with clay at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts as an undergraduate student studying biology. She began by taking wheel throwing classes...

Bruce Armitage

Staff and Teaching Assistant, Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Bruce has been a member of the Harvard Ceramic community since 2014. In addition to being a Teaching Assistant, he also works as a Studio Technician and is a Harvard Ceramic Studio Resident Artist. Bruce is a also a Professional Member of The New England...

Rosanna Bonnet

Staff, Teaching Assistant at Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Before clay, my work was printing limited edition Serigraphs entirely by hand, which I did for almost 15 years. Then I moved to Boston where started working with clay. Since day one it’s been Tiles all the way!

Sarah Carroll

Instructor at Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard

Sarah’s clay education began in 1998 when she enrolled as a full-time student in the two-year School for Professional Crafts at the Worcester Center for Crafts in Worcester, MA. There she studied clay materials and clay bodies, glaze formulation, learned...

Sarah de Besche

Instructor, Staff, Resident Artist, Ceramics Program

BA, Smith College, Northampton, MA. Electric kiln instructor, office assistant, and a Resident Artist at Harvard Ceramics Program, Sarah's functional work integrates clay and the natural world.

Anne Eder

Instructor at Ceramics Program

MFA in Photography and Integrated Media from Lesley University College of Art and Design where she has worked as an adjunct professor. BA from Goddard college focused on historic photographic processes and photographic ethics. Anne Eder is an...

Katie Fee

Instructor at Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard

Katie Fee grew up in the American South. Fee earned her BA from the College of William & Mary and her MFA from Alfred University. Fee’s work has led her to kiln pads and clay studios around the world - most recently to France and Japan - as a visiting...

Janling Fu

Teaching Assistant and Staff, Ceramics Program

Forrest Gard

Instructor, Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard

2023-24 Artist in Residence

Forrest Sincoff Gard is an artist and an educator. He received his BFA in Ceramics from Ohio University in 2009, completed post-baccaleaute studies at the University of Florida in 2011, and earned his MFA in Studio Art from Louisiana State University in...

Ashot Gheridian

Teaching Assistant and Staff, Ceramics Program

Ashot Gheridian was born in Armenia and emigrated to the US at a young age. He has been living in the Boston area where he earned an MBA and Master's in Education. Now that he has retired from public education where he was a high school English teacher...

Claudia Olds Goldie

Instructor, Ceramics Program

Claudia Olds Goldie is a 2017 Mass Cultural Council finalist. She received a nomination for a Boston Foundation Brother Thomas Fellowship, a Kiln God residency from Watershed Center for Ceramics, and a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. Olds...

Pam Gorgone

Instructor, Staff, Resident Artist, Ceramics Program

BFA, Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Pam has been a Non-Resident Tutor and Instructor at Harvard’s Mather House. Her small scale sculptural work, often focusing on sets and serial object, has been described as quiet...

Chenlu Hou

Artist In Residence at Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard

Instructor at Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard

Chenlu Hou’s imaginative sculptures draw inspiration from Chinese folk art, ceremonial objects, and moments from her daily life. Blending personal memories with reinterpretations of traditional storytelling, Hou creates a distinctive artistic language...

Tom Hubbard

Instructor at Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Tom Hubbard is an interdisciplinary artist. His practice includes ceramics, photography, mixed media works and public art installations. Tempered by a minimalist approach, loss, history, memory, and the passage of time are threads often running through...

Marek Jacisin

Instructor, Ceramics Program

MS, University of Economics, Slovakia, Graphic Design Diploma, Clark University, Worcester, MA Marek’s slab built geometric sculptures and wall tiles reflect his interest in architecture and contemporary design. He has recently shown his work in the...

Kyle Johns

Instructor, Ceramics Program

2019-2020 Artist In Residence

Kyle Johns was born in and raised in the Chicago land area most all his life. Kyle found his passion for working with clay at Oakton Community College. Kyle then transferred to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) where he began studying under...

Melinda Jordan

Staff, Teaching Assistant at Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Matthew Katz

Instructor at Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard

Matt Katz is a working ceramic artist with a B.F.A from Alfred and M.F.A. from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He has worked as a Ceramic Engineer and researcher for almost 20 years. Katz uses his knowledge of Art and Engineering to make ceramic...

Ashton Keen

Instructor, Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Artist-in-Residence, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Ashton Keen received her BFA from the University of Mississippi. Following graduation, she went on to become an intern at STARworks Center for Creative Enterprise. Most recently, she completed an MFA from Utah State University. Her work has been displayed...

James Keller

Staff, Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Mary Kenny

Instructor at Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard

Mary Kenny is a resident artist in the Ceramics Program and teaches drawing, ceramics and sewing in many local community centers. She holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. She was a...

Manya Lulek

Staff, Teaching Assistant at Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Diane Lulek

Instructor, Staff at Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard

BFA in Ceramics, Rhode Island School of Design. Instructor and staff member at the Ceramics Program at Harvard, Diane makes functional pieces, as well as a variety of dinnerware for restaurants around New England. She is also a horticulturist and a...

Joanna Mark

Instructor, Ceramics Program

Joanna has been working in clay for 40 years, and specializes in functional and sculptural ware. Her work has been shown at Fuller Craft Museum, State of Clay (2012 Merit Award) and various galleries up and down the East Coast.

Denny McLaughlin

Instructor, Staff, Ceramics Program

MFA, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. BA, Southwest State University, Marshall, MN McLaughlin started his university studies as an art major concentrating on two-dimen­sional work at Southwest State University, Marshall, MN, but with his first...

Steve Murphy

Instructor at Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard

BFA, UMASS Dartmouth, 1983. Apprentice to Keiichroh Sato, potter in Nagano-ken, Japan, 1990-9. Steve is also a long-time instructor at Mudflat Ceramics Studio in Somerville, MA.

Kyungmin Park

Artist In Residence at Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard

Instructor at Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard

Kyungmin Park is a South Korean-born ceramic artist whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her work explores themes of introspection, diversity, societal expectations, and illuminating human connections across cultures and...

Nik Putnam

Instructor, Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Independent Artist Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Nik Putnam is a ceramic and digital media artist fascinated by symmetry and pattern and by the possibilities of human-machine collaboration. In addition to using traditional pottery techniques, he develops hardware and software “robotic assistants” to...

Adriana Sousa Estrella

Teaching Assistant, Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Instructor, Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Kathi Tighe

instructor, Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Teaching Assistant, Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Brandon VanWormer

Instructor, Ceramics Program

Brandon received his MFA from Indiana University - Bloomington, IN in May 2022. Before his master's work, he was a Post-Bacc/Special Student in Ceramic Art at Syracuse University. Brandon received his BFA in Studio Art from Central Michigan University...

Paul Wisotzky

Instructor at Ceramics Program - Office for the Arts at Harvard

Paul Wisotzky is a studio potter and educator from Truro, Massachusetts. He makes functional pottery from porcelain and stoneware and fires his work in soda and reduction atmospheres at his studio Blueberry Lane Pottery. Paul teaches at the Harvard...

Casey Zeng

Instructor, Staff, Resident Artist, Ceramics Program

BS in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Casey heads the clay-recycling program at the Ceramics Program with the use of the pug-mills. He also facilitates the course, Glaze and Clay Chemistry with Instructor Matthew Katz and assists...