is a master potter with over twenty years experience in all areas of stoneware and porcelain pottery production, including throwing, slipware, glaze development, decoration and firing. Ara apprenticed with his grandfather, Michael Cardew and managed the family pottery, Wenford Bridge Pottery, Cornwall, England for many years. His teaching emphasis is on forms and decorations of the English slipware tradition.

has an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College and MFA from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She spent two years as a Core Student at Penland School of Crafts, a year and a half as a special student at The University of the Arts, PA and two years as a resident artist at Watershed, ME. Sarah has worked as a studio manager at Northern Clay Center and adjunct professor at Hamline University and received both a Jerome Artist Project Grant and a McKnight Artist Fellowship. She says she is driven by the promise of improvement through practice; continually adding and reducing elements in her work, focusing first on drawing, then carving, then color balance, then liquidity of glazed surfaces versus matte texture of slips. Her goal is to find the satisfying edge of too much.

jewelry and sculpture is in the permanent collections of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in NYC, the Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village in Millville NJ, and other public and private collections. She holds an MFA in sculpture and a BA in biology/geology. She has taught metalsmithing to people of all ages and experience levels for close to three decades, and has run the CraftStudies’ Metals Studio since 1991. As a dedicated teacher who brings the creativity and attention she gives her own work to her classes, Kerstin’s goal is to instill an excitement in what her students are learning that goes deeper than the mere making of beautiful objects and the mastery of techniques.

Joy Raskin

is a native of NH, and has been a silversmith since 1984. She was accepted as a juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen while still in high school. Joy received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Both her jewelry and flatware designs have been exhibited throughout the United States, Ireland and New Zealand.

has been making traditional Celtic and Celtic-inspired furniture since 1981. He studied with master woodcarver Art Ritchie of Keene, NH and in Connemara, Ireland with furniture master Al O’Dea. Grant has been teaching woodcarving for several years and recently guided his students in making signs for the local town forest. He is a founding member of the Guild of NH Woodworkers and a juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen. Grant plays music on the Celtic harp he made and his Irish wooden flute.

earned his BA in Studio Ceramics at Bates College and continued to study the art and craft of clay with several potteries of national acclaim. Nathan has set-up clay cooperatives, managed galleries, directed educational studios and collaborated with chefs and farmers to create custom ware. He is a technician who builds kilns, overhauls wheels and pugmills, and produces glaze palettes for a wide range of temperatures and atmospheres. He currently teaches at Dartmouth College and CraftStudies where he is also the studio coordinator.