WHEEL THROWING

INTERMEDIATE WHEEL THROWING
MONDAY 6PM

FINDING YOUR WAY WITH CLAY
SATURDAY 9.30AM

DC works mostly on the wheel, but is adept at hand building and sculpture as well. He creates a nurturing, fun, and informative environment while offering guidance to beginner, intermediate, and advanced potters.

HAND BUILDING

MAGICAL WONDERS OF BMIX PAPER CLAY
MONDAY 1PM

MAGICAL WONDERS OF BMIX PAPER CLAY
SATURDAY 1PM

Penaloza’s work consists of sculptures expressing iconic American issues, ideals, and popular figures in a surrealistic manner.

“His inspirations for moving to the more free-form and intricate art form of sculpture include fantasy movies and special effect design. Ceramic sculpture gives him an opportunity to give life to what exists within his heart and imagination.”

WHEEL THROWING & HAND BUILDING

CERAMICS WITH JANET
TUESDAY 9.30AM

Award-winner Janet Burner is a long-time local ceramic artist with over 40 years of instructional experience, and one of the original founding members of Romero House. After graduating from the University of Arizona, she studied ceramics at Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO and apprenticing with Harry Holl in Dennis, MA, Janet opened her business, Sabino Stoneware Pottery. From throwing to hand building, sculpting, glazing, and firing, there isn’t anything Janet can’t show you how to do.

HAND BUILDING

ANATOMY AND FIGURE MODELING FOR SCULPTORS
FRIDAY 5.30PM

Jesse Berlin is a local sculptor and sculpture teacher. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Sculpture from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. His sculpture, which utilizes anatomy and realism to explore themes relating to the universal human condition, has won several awards and was featured in the 2014 issue of Direct Art Magazine, the 2013 Arizona Biennial, and KGUN 9’s “Morning Blend.” In 2022 one of his ceramic sculptures produced at Romero House was used as the basis for a character in the hit Netflix series “The Sandman.”

WHEEL THROWING & HAND BUILDING

BEGINNING CLAY, THE BASICS
MONDAY 10AM

Nan Wollman is an artist, teacher and preparator, and a recent transplant to Tucson. Ms. Wollman has a B.F.A. in ceramics from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia College of Art and an M.F.A. in sculpture from The University of Texas at San Antonio. She has taught ceramics and art welding for many years. Ms. Wollman has exhibited her work widely, and she has won honors in the U.S. and abroad.

WHEEL THROWING

FORM AND FUNCTION: A GOAL ORIENTED MENTORSHIP
SUNDAY 1.30PM

Olivia Tuller has been doing ceramics since 2017 when she discovered it as part of the art history curriculum at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Or. Since then, she’s furthered her clay education at the Multnomah Arts Center, Pima Community College, and Romero House Potters, as well as attending NCECA in 2018. She has also been awarded the Friends of Arrowmont scholarship to attend one of their prestigious workshops. Though she has experience in both handbuilding and wheel throwing, her own work focuses on wheel thrown functional ware, utilizing a variety of glazing techniques such as sgraffito, mishima, and wax resist. She has taught beginning wheel as well as children's handbuilding, and her work is sold around Tucson. She loves the unique creative process that ceramics offers, and enjoys guiding others on their journey to find their artistic voice through clay. 

HAND BUILDING

UNIQUELY UBIQUITOUS
FRIDAY 9.30AM

BUILDING CHARACTERS, A FIGURINE MAKING CLASS
FRIDAY 1PM

YeRin Kim is an artist from South Korea. She holds a BFA in fine art from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in sculpture from the California College of Arts. YeRin's artwork has been featured in galleries and museums in South Korea, Germany, and various parts of the United States. With experience teaching art in both San Francisco and Tucson, she is a firm believer that everyone possesses innate artistic abilities. YeRin's teaching approach is enriched by her diverse background in the arts, allowing her to offer a nuanced understanding of materials and techniques to her students.

WHEEL THROWING & HAND BUILDING

CERAMICS WATER FEATURES
THURSDAY 4.30PM

Zach combines wheel throwing and hand-building techniques to create ceramic sculptures that are influenced by nature: ocean animals, plants, trees, and rock formations.  He draws inspiration from the community of artists around him and the writers and filmmakers he loved as a child, in particular, Ray Harryhausen. Zach earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in ceramics from Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey in 2014. For his thesis project and show, fountains as a story telling medium, Zach created thirteen ceramic fountains and wrote a choose-your-own-adventure story to guide viewers through the world he imagined. He has studied and displayed his artwork in Japan, Turkey, and the United States.

HAND BUILDING

ROOTED IN TRADITION WEDNESDAY 5:30PM

Lisa Rooney is a transdisciplinary artist whose work surrounds connection to land and community. She has worked with clay for over a decade, specializing in hand built ceramics. Her work explores clay through many outlets, including earthen architecture, architectural relief work, and painting with natural pigments.

After receiving her degree in Sculpture from Mason Gross, Lisa continued to study ceramics in New York, Colorado, and Arizona. She has taught for over 8 years, and continues to produce her own work which you can view on her website on instagram @lisarooney.studio.