Sarah Carroll

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 hand building, wheel-throwing, and slip-casting techniques, and fired electric, gas reduction, soda, and wood kilns. Sarah maintained studios in Worcester, MA and New Haven, CT, for many years, participating in open studio events in both cities, and spent seven years on a crew that prepped for and fired a large single-chamber noborigama wood kiln twice a year. Sarah began teaching ceramics in 2021 at Indigo Fire Studio in Watertown, where she currently teaches both wheel-throwing and hand building classes. As an instructor, Sarah loves introducing students to new techniques, helping them build skills and develop their voice in clay, and encouraging them to take risks. Sarah’s own work is inspired by the impressions and textures on display when nature meets the human-constructed environment, where time and decay impact the materials such as weathered paint, rusted metal, worn leather, or discarded bricks.