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Ceramics

About the Studios

Come take a tour! Just call 212.415.5565. When you come by, you’ll find studios equipped with 25 electric potters' wheels, a gas reduction kiln and three electric kilns. During the fall and spring terms you’ll have the opportunity to take classes using stoneware, and in the summer months porcelain is the material of choice. All work is glaze-fired to cone 10. Clay is included in the cost of tuition (unless you use bagged clay, which may be purchased for $20 per 25-pound bag). Firing charge is six cents per cubic inch for two firings for all work made in classes and workshops. Students must supply their own tools, which may be purchased from 92NY. Open studio time is available to all students currently enrolled in one of our classes. A $6/hr. fee applies. Finished work not picked up after 90 days will be discarded.

Open studio time is available to all students currently enrolled in one of our classes following the open studio schedule.

Director, Ceramics Center

Robert Silverman

Robert Silverman joined The 92nd Street Y, New York as Director of the Ceramic Center in August 2007. He oversees a large and diverse program offering over 20 classes and serving 1,100 students a year.

Faculty

Minkyung Choi

Minkyung Choi

Min Choi, born in Seoul, Korea, is a Brooklyn-based Ceramic artist. She received her MFA in Ceramics from Kent State University and her BFA in Ceramics from the State University of New York at New ...

Katie Coughlin

Katie Coughlin

Katie Coughlin received her MFA from The Ohio State University(2018) and her BFA from Alfred University (2010). Katie has been an Artist in Resident at Red Lodge Clay Center and Watershed Center fo ...

Carol Cutler

Carol Cutler

Carol Cutler currently teaches ceramics in the Art Center's afterschool program and in the 60+ Program of 92nd Street Y. In addition, she is director of Ceramics for the Y Camps at the Henry Ka ...

Sarah Emond

Sarah Emond

Sarah Emond has a M.A. New York University in sculpture. Emond works professionally as both a sculptor and functional ceramist. She works primarily on individual commissions and designing unique ce ...

Shauna Fahley

Shauna Fahley

Shauna Fahley is a figurative ceramic sculptor from Seattle, Washington. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Washington in 2017 and earned her Master of Fine Arts in ceram ...

Vicki Finkel

Vicki Finkel

Vicki Finkel teaches ceramics in the 92NY Art Center’s afterschool program, and has been in the ceramics department for over 10 years. She has created and run the Clay Arts program for the 92 ...

Veronica Frenning

Veronica Frenning

Veronica Frenning received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has taught ceramics classes at Abrons Arts Center/Henry Street Settlement, City ...

David Gibson

David Gibson

David Gibson received his MFA from Louisiana State University (1996) and his BFA from University of the Arts in Philadelphia (1990). He did a residency at the University of the Arts (1991). His wor ...

Meiasha Gray

Meiasha Gray

Meiasha is an artist based in New York, born in Detroit Michigan. Meiasha uses research Evidence, and stories of familial communion within Black domestic space to inform their relationship with var ...

Noah Heil

Noah Heil

Noah Heil (he/they) first fell in love with clay while attending Macalester College in his home state of Minnesota, where he studied Studio Art, Spanish & Portuguese. Noah has since continued t ...

Julie Knight

Julie Knight

Julie Knight is the co-owner of JAK POT Studio in the Catskills of NY. A graduate of the Ringling College of Art and Design, was awarded an internship in New York City from the AICAD 1990, the Anna ...

Kay Kojima

Kay Kojima

Kay Kojima is a Japanese American ceramicist, born and bred in NYC. She has been working in clay for over 10 years, and teaches adult wheel throwing and hand building classes at 92NY and at BKLYN C ...

Carol Lewis

Carol Lewis

Carol Grocki Lewis has been on the faculty at the 92nd Street Y since 1995. She earned her M.A. in Museum Studies and Art History from the Gallatin Division at New York University in 1992 and her B ...

Wren Macdonald

Wren Macdonald

New York City based artist, Wren Macdonald, uses gestural animal motifs to create ceramic installations, illustrations, and poetry. Her work is highly influenced by the Colorado mountains she grew ...

Liam Maillaro

Liam Maillaro

Liam Maillaro has been working in depth with clay since he was 15, when he fell in love with the wheel in my high school sculpture course. Fortunately, he was able to pursue ceramics, along with pr ...

Verdiana Patacchini

Verdiana Patacchini

Verdiana Patacchini is an Italian visual artist specializing in painting and ceramic sculpture. Originally from the Tuscia region, she is now based in New York City as a naturalized American.

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J.J. Peet

J.J. Peet

JJ Peet is an artist who originally trained in clay while studying for his BFA from the University of Minnesota. He went on to receive his MFA from the prestigious Yale School of Art. Peet’s ...

Andrew Robinson

Andrew Robinson

Andrew Robinson is an interdisciplinary artist. His roots in ceramics began early on while working in an eight-year apprenticeship in a production pottery informed by Anglo-Japanese traditions. The ...

Joshua Schutz

Joshua Schutz

Josh Schutz (b. La Crosse, WI) is a queer artist living and working in New York City. He attended Minnesota State University, Mankato (BA 2016, MA 2018) and Alfred University (MFA 2020). Schutz is ...

Isabelle Yaron

Isabelle Yaron

Isabelle Yaron is a French potter trained the old fashioned way with different ceramic artists. Trained as a classical pianist, she found pottery by chance to later realize that her music backgroun ...

Please note that all 92Y regularly scheduled in-person programs are suspended.