Beginning and Intermediate Pottery & Wheelwork

Christian Blanck is a ceramic artist and teacher with over 20 years of experience in the studio. His classes emphasize strong foundational skills, while encouraging creativity, experimentation, and personal expression. With a patient and welcoming teaching style, he creates an inclusive environment for all experience levels. Christian maintains an active studio in Minneapolis. 

Tom received his BA in Art in 1989, his teaching certificate in 1993, and has been teaching art, primarily ceramics, at Harding High School since 1995. He taught ceramics for Community Education at Harding for about 10 years before taking a hiatus.  Now with a new, improved ceramics room at Harding he accommodate an adult class once more! Tom enjoys teaching to all levels, has tons of ideas and can make just about anything out of clay.

Annette Huot-Link is an established potter and ceramics instructor in St. Paul. She received her BA in Theater and Spanish from the College of St. Benedict where she assisted master potter Richard Bresnahan. She then studied at the Northern Clay Center and later apprenticed under master potter Bob Eckels in Bayfield, WI. She aims to cultivate creativity and joy in her classes.

Jeremy Jones is originally from Casper, WY and received a BFA in ceramics and sculpture from the University of Wyoming in 2006 and an MFA in sculpture from Wichita State University in 2012. He creates toy-like sculptures and assemblages that seek to enshrine the everyday moments of child rearing/parenthood. Jones has had reviews in The Nashville Scene, Nashville Arts Magazine and Peripheral ARTeries Contemporary Art Review and exhibited his work throughout the greater United States including: Space 204 at Vanderbilt University, The Nicolaysen Art Museum and the Macy Gallery at Columbia University. Jones is the ceramics instructor at Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts in St. Paul, MN

Giselle is a Minneapolis-based potter who has been throwing on and off for 7 years. She honed her craft through form instruction at the Northern Clay Center, learning under locally renowned potters including Sandra Daulton Shaughnessy. She initially grew fond - and just frustrated enough - of wheel throwing to be hooked after intro classes at Dock 6 Pottery, after which she began a 2-year self-taught membership at St. Paul community Northern Lights Art Studio. Giselle continues the family tradition of pottery, growing up in awe of her grandmother’s home studio in Northfield.