Student Highlight

  Student Highlight: Natalia Gonzalez Natalia Gonzalez is a dedicated and passionate ceramic artist. She specializes in wheel-thrown pottery and also enjoys handbuilding techniques. Currently, she is exploring the art of miniature mask-making, inspired by her Puerto Rican heritage. Her masks are vibrant and expressive, reflecting deep cultural significance. Natalia has been learning and working […]

  Student Highlight: Alejandra Laverde Alejandra has been at our studio for almost 2 years. She is a passionate hand-builder that creates beautifully decorated functional pieces.  Her work come in many sizes with an amazing attention to detail in her slip trailing designs.   She has a definitive style with her contrasting white and blue designs. 

  Student Highlight: Melissa Elbers Melissa has been at our studio for over a year. She is very dedicated and passionate about creating wheel thrown functional pottery.  She is an architect/designer by trade and has tapped into her design background and applied it to her pottery. She enjoys throwing big pots for flower vases and

  Student Highlight: Patricia Fernandez Patricia is a new and eager student that has a natural ability for making and decorating pottery. She has been exploring her new passion at our studio since September.  She is currently a student and a barista, and she creates functional pottery to suite lifestyle. 

Student Highlight: Alina Verdeja Alina has been part of our studio for a little over a year. She is a quick learner and a natural talent for the pottery wheel.  Alina is very consistent and passionate about clay.  She attends the studio several times a week, and she is always willing to take up new

Student Highlight: Eduardo Fernandez Eduardo has been part of our studio for over five years now. He started in our kid’s pottery classes at the age of 11, and now he is 17.  He is now part of our advanced Saturday morning pottery class where he shares his passion for clay with adult potters. Eduardo

Julia has been part of our studio for three years now. She is very passionate about working in clay on and off the wheel. Julia makes some of the most beautiful hand-built pieces that look wheel thrown.  She is always very enthusiastic and inspired by many ceramists she follows on social media, always dabbling in

Jee-Yoon has been part of our studio for a few years now. She works methodically on unique hand built pieces. Most of her pieces are created with pinching and slab work.  She carves away textures that create beautiful glaze breaks in her pots, and sometimes accents them with gold overglaze. She designs and creates functional

Marco is natural, clay is his calling.  He started at Anhinga Clay Studios at 16 in our Kid’s Clay Class with raw talent and moved very quickly to the advanced adult class.  He has grown tremendously as a student in the last couple of years and was an integral part of keeping the studio running

Maritza is a shining light of positivity around the studio.  She has been at Anhinga Clay Studios since 2012 and never misses a class. She loves to try all things clay and is fearless in doing so, especially raku which she loves the most.  Not only does she love clay, but she is also a