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CAROLYN PHILLIPS
Carolyn has worked at Baltimore Clayworks for four years as a Community Arts teacher, teaching at multiple sites including Jubilee Arts, Robert Coleman Elementary, Chinquapin Middle School, Pimlico Road, and many others. She is a retired Baltimore City art teacher, certified to teach K-12 and taught a variety of media for 30 years.
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HERB MASSIE
Herb has been teaching at Baltimore Clayworks since September of 2000. He coordinates teaching sites for the Community Arts Program and is the site Manager for the Clay for All Center at the Zeta Center. He participated in and led public community art projects including “Discovering Community: The History of East Baltimore” at Dunbar Middle school, the “Memorial: Tiffany Square” project, “And still I Rise” at St. Frances Academy, and “The Parkway Community” mural, among many others. He teaches the senior adult classes for Community Arts as well as youth programs. He is co-directing the Community Arts program at Baltimore Clayworks.
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MELISSA HARRISON
Melissa has a BFA in art with a concentration in graphic design and ceramics from UNC-Greensboro and is certified Pre-K- 12 art teacher. She works with a primary focus in painting and personal expression. Melissa finds that immersing children to art improves their self-esteem and provides a variety of ways to express their vital thoughts and feelings. Melissa has been working with Baltimore Clayworks’ Community Arts Program for four years.
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LAURA COHEN
Laura is a community artist, organizer, advocate, teaching artist and co-director of Community Arts at Baltimore Clayworks. As co-director of Community Arts at Clayworks, she creates, manages and facilitates teachers, interns and volunteers, community projects, public art installations, partnerships and programs that bring the joy, skill development, increased self-esteem and community building of high quality ceramics programming to the underserved communities of Baltimore City. She has her B.S in Art Education from the University of Vermont, holds a Master of Arts in Community Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art and completed two terms of service with AmeriCorps State. Laura is a licensed art educator, has been working at Baltimore Clayworks since 2008.
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SARAH MCCANN
Sarah received a B.S. in studio art from New York University and an MA in Community Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008. She partners with individuals and organizations to facilitate projects that use existing systems of behavior to form deeper human relationships and create opportunities for reflection and growth. She works as the Development Associate at Baltimore Clayworks, is an independent curator and continues to teach classes and workshops throughout the city with Clayworks and other organizations.
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HELEN HARDESTY
Helen is a Baltimore native, arts educator, ceramic artist and mosaic artist. She has been teaching with Clayworks for over eight years and infuses the joy of clay in the Baltimore City youth with whom she works.
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SALLAH JENKINS
Sallah is a ceramic artist, teacher, student, mom and grandma. Outside of Baltimore Clayworks she was once referred to as the Craft Queens of Baltimore by the Baltimore Sun. She is known to attend community craft festivals as an ethnic face painter, painting only African inspired designs. Sallah has also participated in Axis Alley, a community project designed to beautify abandon homes, Theatre Project's, Zippy the Pinhead, the play where she assisted in the costume design and making under the tutelage of Professor Nicole Fall, and has been a craft creator and facilitator for Art on Purpose, Black Man's Identity Project along with Reginald Lewis Museum of African American History and Art annual Kwanzaa Program. Currently she is completing a BA degree in Urban Arts at the HBC Coppin State College. There are two signature sayings that Sallah likes to leave as her closing, they are Keep Art Alive and Peace and Pottery. Her belief is that Art touches on every aspect of life.
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DOMINIQUE HELLGETH
Dominique is a ceramic artist, community artist and second year AmeriCorps, Community Arts Collaborative member at Baltimore Clayworks. Dominique teaches and studio manages the Clay for All Center at Jubilee Arts and facilitates the Buy a Cup, Give a Class program in the Community Arts Gallery. Dominique is interested in working with raw materials, clay and building community through shared experiences.
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YVONNE CRIEGHTON
Yvonne Creighton has been working as a community artist and teacher for over fifteen years. She teaches art to a diverse group of students. Ms. Creighton has taught clay, painting, and book making to children. She also teaches clay and mixed media art to adults with physical and intellectual disabilities. Her own work investigates the natural world of animals, plants, insects and ocean life.
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SHALYA MARSH
Shalya is the recipient of the 2010–11 Lormina Salter Fellowship. She earned a BFA in Ceramics from the State University of New York at New Paltz and has participated in numerous residencies and workshops including a Kiln God Residency at Watershed, a Studio Assistantship at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and Penland. She teaches senior adult participants in the Community Arts program.
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MARY CLOONAN
Mary is a Clayworks resident artist and exhibitions director. She holds her MFA from Syracuse University and her BS Fine Arts from Nazareth College. Mary teaches at recreation centers, at our Clay for All Centers and at other various churches and grassroots organizations in Baltimore.
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KERRI DOUGHERTY
Kerri received her BFA in Ceramics from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010. She has been traveling down to Nicaragua every summer for the past 4 years to work with high school and college students on different art and community art projects and teaches at recreation centers and in after school programs in Baltimore.
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IDA FUELL
Ida has been teaching youth and senior adult workshops at Clayworks for over three years. She is a retired Baltimore City art teacher and loves making ceramic jewelry.
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QUENTIN GIBEAU
Quentin has his MFA in Community Arts and his BS in Illustration from MICA. He bring the joys if clay and art making to young people in recreation centers, in after school programs and throughout the city with other programs.
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JEREMY SIMS
Jeremy has his BS in Ceramics and Sculpture from MICA. He teaches the young people at Jubilee Arts and is currently participating in a residency at Guldagergaard.
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JOANNE TERRELL
Joanne is a sculptural ceramic artist and teacher. She teaches at recreation centers and within afterschool programs.
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LYNETTE RODGERS
Lynette is a ceramics artist and teacher- she brings the joy of clay to recreation centers and schools. She has her undergraduate degree in ceramics from Morgan State University.
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