Audrey Jones
Audrey was born in Scotland, brought up in England, leaving there to live in New Zealand. She came to the United States for a working holiday with her husband, and never went to live anywhere else.  She started painting ceramics in 1968, becoming a Duncan Ambassador in 1975.

Audrey has taught all over the USA, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and England. Currently, she holds the title of Duncan's longest serving ambassador in the USA, receiving the “David Hoff Award” for the Most Outstanding teacher.

Audrey loves to teach brush strokes and to share all the techniques and tricks that she has found out over all the years that she has been painting.

Mark Lueders
Mark Lueders received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in painting and his BFA from Miami University in Ohio. He was a recipient of the Mid Atlantic Regional NEA Fellowship as well as a resident at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. Mark established a ceramics program for the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 where he taught for 11 years.

His current work combines both computer technology, and traditional craft techniques. Mark has been invited to numerous solo and group exhibitions through the east coast. Completed in 2003, Mark's bronze gate at the entrance of The Addams Fine Art Building on the University of Pennsylvania's campus has become a memorable fixture.

He is also the owner and inventor of theceramicshop.com.

Mary Lou Tabo
Mary Lou is a graduate of Kutztown State University with a degree in Art Education. It was there that she had my first exposure to ceramics. Besides taking advanced courses in ceramics at Kutztown, she has taken post graduate classes at the University of Delaware and Penn State University.

Mary Lou has twenty three years experience teaching art in Pennsylvania and Delaware public Schools. When her children were small, she took a hiatus from full time teaching and built her own ceramics studio, selling her work at local craft shows. She was the first instructor at the opening of the Yorklyn Center for the Creative Arts in Hockessin Delaware, teaching both adult and children’s classes.

Since Mary Lou’s retirement from public school teaching, she has been teaching ceramics and art classes to home school children at Cecil County Community College and working on her own ceramics.

Mitch Lyons
Mitch Lyons earned his Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Ceramics from Tyler School of Art, and his Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree in Graphics from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His clay monoprints can be found in numerous private and public collections throughout the United States, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Woodmere Museum, American University and the University of Delaware.

Lyons has had exhibitions of his work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Virginia museum of Fine Arts; Noyes Museum, New Jersey; Kalmar Lans Museum, Kalmar, Sweden; and the Vonderau Museum, Fulda, Germany. He is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council of the arts Visual Arts Grant.

He has taught at West Chester University, Moore College of Art, Rowan University, Alfred University, and the University of Delaware.  In the past 10 years he has led over 100 workshops.

Karen Marinelli
Karen received her Bachelor of Science in Education, and taught for 13 years in the public school system.  It was a visit to England that prompted her to take a stained glass class over 20 years ago.  This was when she discovered her true passion for glass. Soon after, Karen became interested in fused glass. She also has explored other areas of glassworking such as copper enameled beads, lampworking, glassblowing, and is certified to teach Art Clay.

Karen continues to expand her knowledge of warm glass techniques with internationally known artisans and instructors, with Hot Glass Horizons,  Corning, NY.   Karen has taught stained and fused glass classes at Delaware Art Museum and Delaware Technical and Community College and is currently teaching glass classes with the Southern Chester Night School and Cecil County Community College.

Through workshops, reading and exploring different mediums using warm glass, Karen continues to be a life long learner.

Amedeo Salamoni
Amedeo was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1965.  He attended to Kean College in Union NJ, and received a BA in Urban and Outdoor Recreation in 1988 and, an MA in Art Education in 1989.  While studying at Kean, doing primarily ceramic sculpture, he fell in love with clay as a medium; he wanted to explore the possibilities further. 

Amedeo then attended the University of Delaware where he earned his MFA in Ceramics-Sculpture in 1991. Teaching himself to throw pots (for a shortcut in making one of his sculptures), he become obsessed with making functional pots.  This change in direction took Amedeo to rural Georgia after graduation where he took a job at a production pottery working with local folk potters that have been doing clay for generations.  It was here that he fine-tuned his skills as a potter.  He learned by watching and helping the old-timers fire their wood-fired groundhog kilns.

Looking for a change and more of a challenge, Amedeo moved to Pennsylvania to work for Eldreth Pottery as their Head Potter.  “Working for Eldreth is like an extension of the folk pottery methods I learned in Georgia; as their pottery style has deep roots to traditional folk pottery.” 

Amedeo has been with Eldreth for over 8 years now.  His current passion is now to pursue wood-firing in a Japanese Anagama-style kiln using Asian forms as his influence in his personal work.  While not making pots, Amedeo enjoys scouting and riding his motorcycle with his wife and son in the Pennsylvania countryside

Kevin Lehman
Kevin is a ceramic artist that was born and raised in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where his love for clay began.  He always enjoyed working with clay even at an early age in his life.   In elementary school, Kevin had his first experience using a potter's wheel.  This experience drove Kevin to pursue ceramics in his education.  Studying under John Ground at Millersville University, Kevin developed the fundamental knowledge and essential technical skills necessary for creating ceramic works.  He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Art in May of 2000.

After graduating from Millersville, he started his own ceramic pottery business, Kevin Lehman's Pottery, located in Lancaster, PA. Kevin's vision is to create an active community center for the ceramic arts in his community.

Kevin is always interested in experimenting with new ideas and techniques and then sharing those ideas with other people.  Kevin has given lectures and workshops locally and also exhibits nationally, receiving several awards for his ceramic works.

Barbara Hanselman
A few potters make exploitable sculptures of functional pieces assembled in a style uniquely their own. Barbara Hanselman is one such person. Her pots, constructed from slabs or using a pinch-strip method she developed, are full of gesture. They bear the look of burnished metal, tooled leather or whimsical china. Her techniques make building featherweight forms of many shapes and sizes a possibility. In addition, she addresses how what she is going to make will look before asking the question, what's it going to be - an approach quite out of the norm for most potters.

Before Barbara found clay, she ate, slept and breathed interior and architectural design, and spent all of my time engrossed in the needs of others. “I had no life without my client list. Then in 1994 while on vacation, I attended a workshop given by Jeanne Haskell at The Vermont Clay Studio in Montpelier, Vermont. At the time, I didn't know the difference between wet clay and the mud in my driveway, but once my hands started poking and stretching and feeling the hunk of clay I was allotted, I knew I had to learn more.”

Upon returning home, she immediately signed up for classes at Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown, New Jersey and The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Barbara became consumed by all things clay.  The more she experienced, the more she realized there was to experience, and the more she needed to ‘do clay.  “My entire being, not just my hands, is an integral part of the process.  What emerges just HAPPENS – from the visual appeal to the featherweight feel of each piece.”  Barbara’s work, when experienced, evokes spontaneous wows; her workshops are a journey in what-ifs and learning to see.

Barbara’s creative philosophy is a contradictory mix of Nike's "Just do it!", and the Beatle's "Let it be," both practiced in the spirit of author Tom Robbins who writes, "It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

Heather Levy
Heather grew up in the west, earning her BS from the University of Nevada-Reno.  Her career pursuits then led her to Arizona, where she continued her education working towards her MA in Organizational Management and Development.  Heather stayed in the West, transferring from Arizona to Utah, until moving to New York City where she worked for a Fortune 100 company on Wall Street.

After deciding to leave her career of 15 years, she set out to investigate options for her “next” profession.  Heather decided to first take some time for herself, and on a whim, signed up for her first pottery class while living in Long Island New York.  Once her hands touched clay, all other options vanished.  Clay became her sole and solitary pursuit. “It’s hard to say if I found clay, or if clay found me. Clay beats in me like another heart.”

That first clay class was both an evolution and revolution for Heather.  For the past six years, she has tirelessly studied clay sculpture and pottery, taking classes and attending workshops by some of the country’s most renowned clay artists, to include Don Reitz, Mark Shapiro, Peter Callas, Rebecca Hutchinson, and the late Peter Voulkus.  Heather’s clay “voice” continues to evolve.  Her pieces are mainly figurative, whether sculpted or thrown on the wheel and altered, evoking a bit of whimsy and imagination.

Heather decided to combine her love for art and clay with her expertise as a corporate educator and trainer.  “I want to teach others, to give them the opportunity to tap into their creative selves, the one that most of us don’t even think we have.”  In 2006, she opened Art Space on Main, a teaching studio and gallery in Elkton Maryland, offering clay classes and workshops in pottery, hand building and sculpture, as well as warm glass/fusing.  When not knee-deep in clay, Heather enjoys cooking, gardening and playing with her two children, her husband, Andrew and their dog.

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