Ceramic Instructors
Private lessons are a 2 hour intense session of individualized learning catering to beginners as well as those developing skills or exploring new forms. Student and instructor will coordinate on an agreed upon time.
2 hour private lesson for 1 person $165 * 2 hour semi-private lesson for 2 people $275 * For further options, arrangements can be made with your instructor.
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Private Lesson in hand-building
w/ Cristina Victor
Cristina Victor is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and educator currently working in textiles, public projects, installation and sculpture. As a ceramicist she goes by Sabia Ceramics and loves to teach handbuilding. Using slab and coil techniques, she folds elements of the Caribbean, deco architecture and uses color boldly in her sculptural and functional work. received her AA from the New World School of the Arts, Her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
She has participated in various residencies nationally including Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Vermont Studio Center, ACRE Residency, and Signal Fire.
She is currently a Professor at the College of Charleston Studio Art Department.
View Cristina’s work at @sabiaprojects and at www.cristinavictor.com/
Private Lesson in Wheel throwing w/ Karen Casteel
TBD Week/Weekend Hours
Karen is a ceramic artist and instructor located in the Charleston, SC area. While earning a BFA in Graphic Design from Marshall University, she discovered ceramics. She lived in several states, working in design, sales, and management, then found her way back to clay and began advanced studies. Currently focused on teaching, she continues to make work that is inspired by function and design with the hope of creating connection between the user and the material.
Throughout her 30-year love affair with clay, Karen has continued ceramic exploration by attending many hands-on workshops and master pottery demonstrations at The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, NCECA and The Functional Ceramics Workshop. She has made functional and decorative pots as Full Circle Studios and was an active member of the Colorado Potters Guild and Parker Artist Guild. She has taught at Art Students League of Denver, Parker Monart School of the Arts and currently instructs in the Charleston area.
Private Lesson in Wheel throwing w/ Colin Peterson
TBD Weekend Hours
Colin received his BFA from East Carolina University with a concentration in ceramics in 2007. He has been working in clay for close to 20 years, and after moving to Charleston in the winter of 2017 he decided to start his own pottery business called TRIM.
Being from North Carolina he grew up surrounded by a rich history of pottery. Pulling inspiration from the potters of Seagrove as well as the traditional pottery of Japan and Korea. Through his formative years he spent time learning under masters like Jim Tisnado, Seo Eo, Chuck Chamberlin, Adam Egenoff, Adam Landman, and John Peel. He specializes in making functional utilitarian vessels that incorporate slip techniques, decal work and glaze combinations. You can find his work around Charleston at places like Kweifei, Haegur, Moose Wears, Carolina Beer Candles, and Sea Green Farm.
See more of Colin’s work @trimpottery and at https://www.trimpottery.com/
Private Lesson in hand building w/ Nadia Stieglitz
TBD Week/Weekend Hours
Nadia Stieglitz is a French-born ceramicist, specializing in organic abstract sculpture. Her ceramic work was, primarily, a self-taught venture that began in 2019 by taking classes at cone 10 studios in Charleston with Margaret Weinberg, as well as two workshops with James Oughtibrige and Rebecca Appleby at The Studio Lounge in Holmfirth, UK. This journey into the three-dimensional world of clay has allowed the artist to explore her sensibility for natural textures and anthropomorphic shapes, capturing a host of intricacies at the intersection of art, nature, and the human form.
In 2022, Nadia was a Visiting Artist at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC. She was recently a finalist at the ARTBOX.PROJECT, Miami, a competition during Art Basel Week. Her work is also represented by George Gallery in Charleston, SC.
See her work @nadiastieglitzstudio and www.nadiastieglitz.com.
Olivia Sangster
Olivia Sangster is a ceramic artist working primarily with porcelain and traditional wheel thrown and hand-building techniques. She received her B.F.A. with concentration in Ceramics and Certification in Art Education from Tyler School of Art in 2015. She has been a teacher of art and ceramics both in and out of public schools.
Olivia is the potter behind the small business Petrichor + Gold. She is always seeking ways in which she can create simple, beautiful and functional forms that draw from different inspirations. Her work focuses on form and function, while her initial training in drawing and painting are explored in the surfaces of her work. While she considers herself a teaching artist, she also believes that anyone working in art and especially in clay, is always a student: forever learning from the medium both in and out of the studio.
See more of Olivia’s work @petrichorandgold and at https://petrichorandgold.com/