YONKERS POTTERY - Key Persons
Cori founded Yonkers Pottery in 2014 as a sanctuary to build community, courage and creativity via clay. She's completed 2 years of Steven Hill's Journey Workshop, and has studied ceramics in a wide range of studios, including Greenwich House Pottery, Lehman College, Alfred University, and Haystack Mounain School of Crafts. She's also worked as an assistant to production potter, Teresa Chang. She often looks to plant morphology and the ceramics, arts and crafts of ancient and traditonal cultures worldwide for inspiration for her coiled and pinched pieces.
Lauren-Rae has had her hands in clay since she was young. On Long Island she took classes and worked at Hands on Clay in various capacities, including studio tech and teacher's assistant. She went on to study ceramics at The Craft Union at SUNY Stony Brook and Earth n' Vessel. She utilizes her Masters in Adolescence Education teaching pottery at Yonkers Pottery. She loves altering and augmenting her wheel thrown pieces with carving and organic handbuilt additions. She's working toward selling her ceramics at shows, fairs and online. She's also an avid knitter and plays bassoon.
While completing her BFA in Painting at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Meghan took her first ceramics class. After graduation she continued on her own working in clay, then took an exchange position at Goggleworks, where she worked closely with the studio manager to learn about glazing and firing, and the ins and outs of studio maintenance. Her residency at Yonkers Pottery has allowed her time to develop a line of work that she sells online and at regional craft fairs.
Tatjana earned a BFA in Ceramics from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She employs themes of nature in her work and sells locally and online. Currently attending the Aveda Arts and Sciences Institute Cosmetology program in NYC, she will soon be a a working hair stylist as well as a ceramist.