Pottery Staff

• May Carter is the Pottery Studio Coordinator and serves as a pottery instructor. She has been a potter for over 35 years, has studied with Robert Eckels at Stratford College, at the Penland School, and received a BFA in Ceramics and Painting from East Carolina University.

• Donna Headley studied pottery many years at the Fine Arts Center. She has served as Studio Manager for the past two years, responsible for firings and kiln maintenance, becoming in the process a kiln "guru". She also teaches in our program, and has studied at the Odyssey Center.

• Jill Campbell is an accomplished potter, has taught for New Hoizons, the summer enrichment program for Amherst county schools, and earned an associates degree in Art from CVCC.

• Lib Elder received a degree in Art from the University of Colorado, has studied warm glass in intensive workshops at Arrowmont, and is now a full time artist/craftsman working in cold and warm glass as well as other mediums.

• Jane Garrett attended as an art student at Lynchburg College and RMWC. She has worked at Spun Earth Pottery, and has recently had her tiles published in Five Hundred Tiles by Lark Books.

• Barbara Lane is a master handbuilder in clay, has taught at the League of new Hampshire Craftsman, is a juried member of the Kiln ??. She teaches and maintains a gallery at her Earthstar Studio in North Hartland Vermont.

• Liz McCormack is a self taught and accomplished silversmith for over 20 years, and the owner/craftsman of "Just Liz" Jewelry Shop.

• Ariel Uniss Parker has a MFA in Metals and Jewelry from Savannah School of Art and Design. She has worked for over 8 years as a professional jeweler, and maintains her own jewelry and art gallery, the Studio Gallery at the City Market. View Ariel's Website

• Priscilla Palmer attended Maryland Institute College of Art studying painting, received a B.S. in Art Education from Rhode Island College and was a founding partner in Emerson Creek Pottery.