“Some of my best teachers have been full-time studio potters. Linda Christianson, Michael Simon, and Clary Illian, all stepped into academia briefly to do sabbatical replacements for my professors. Their real-world experience, a lifelong love of clay, coupled with articulate teaching skills made working with them life-changing for me. My apprenticeship program is created around the experience I would have liked to have had when I was starting my clay career. As I expand the Clay Cohorts program, I have asked other studio potters to join me as teachers, these are people who I wish I could have had as teachers “
-Simon Levin
In 2024 we will have 7 mentors working with 40 students in 8 Cohorts of 5.
We’ll also have a bonus mentor available on an A La Carte basis for past and present students.
You’ll find links to informational pages about each below, along with their planned schedule for 2024 — allowing for some flexibility as needed, of course!
The Folks of Cohorts
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Mary Barringer (she/her)
Word Up with Mary! A special opportunity for past and present Cohorts students to schedule time with a professional writer for review of written projects.
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Birdie Boone (she/her)
Individual Meetings, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays or Thursdays; Group Meeting, Last Sundays; In-Person Workshop Dates TBD (April/May).
Workshop Agenda: A fun, week-long creative problem-solving and glaze testing workshop at my studio in Meadowview, Virginia.
Studio ADA accessibility limited by a few stairs.
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Linda Christianson (she/her)
Individual Meetings, 1st & 3rd Wednesdays; Group Meetings, Last Sundays.
Workshop Agenda: My in-person workshop will be during the week of June 17 - 22, 2024. It may be a firing workshop (wood/salt), or a making workshop, and/or a combination, at my studio in Lindstrom, Minnesota.
Studio ADA accessible limited with a few stairs, willing to make adjustments.
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Ann Marie Cooper (she/her)
Ann Marie is the Cohorts Manager. She handles the administrative side of things and guides you through the Instagram guest hosting experience. She also hosts the Clay Cohorts year-end exhibition in her gallery, Good Earth Pottery.
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Kenyon Hansen (he/him)
Individual Meetings, 1st & 3rd Wednesdays or Fridays; Group Meetings, Last Sunday; In-Person Workshop Dates TBD.
Workshop Agenda: Hands on making and a soda firing at my home studio in Dollar Bay, Michigan.
Studio ADA accessibility limited, willing to make adjustments.
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Sam Harvey (he/him)
Individual Meetings:1st & 3rd Mondays, with the exception of January 1st, in which case the first meeting will be on Tuesday, January 2nd. Group Meetings, last Sundays; In-Person Workshop Dates TBD.
Workshop Agenda: Content will be determined by the needs of the cohorts, as we establish each persons' interests and desires. That being said, I would like to focus a few of our discussions on issues surrounding artists' roles in their communities, locally and societally.
Studio can be made ADA accessible
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Simon Levin (he/him)
Individual Meetings, 2nd & 4th Wednesdays or Fridays; Group Meetings, Last Sundays; In-Person Workshop Dates TBD.
Workshop Agenda: Wood-firing in my train kiln in Pawnee, Illinois.
Studio ADA accessibility limited, willing to make adjustments.
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Liz Lurie (she/her)
Individual Meetings 1st & 3rd Wednesdays; Group Meetings, Last Sundays; In-Person Workshop during the last full week of July.
Workshop Agenda: The content will be determined by the needs of the cohort as I get to know the group. It may be a firing workshop (gas, electric or wood), or a making workshop, and/or a combination, at my studio in Cazenovia, New York.
Studio ADA accessible
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Lisa Orr (she/her)
Individual Meetings, 2nd & 4th Wednesdays or Fridays; Group Meetings, Last Sundays; In-Person Workshop Dates TBD.
Workshop Agenda: Making, glazing, rocket kiln firing in her Massachusetts studio.
Studio ADA acessible.