Susan Kay
Susan Kay
Founder
Susan Kay, founder of Tribeca Clayworks, pioneered in Tribeca in the 80’s opening up the first ceramic studio in lower Manhattan. Servicing then a small community of families, the studio grew as the neighborhood did. In 2008 Tribeca Clayworks joined the Downtown Community Center and became part of the Manhattan Youth After-School program.
Susan has a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and a MFA from Pratt Institute. She has taught at Wheaton College, College of Mount Saint Vincent, Parson School of Design and various community centers throughout the Northeast. She now runs the studio at the community center and is Special Cultural Event’s Coordinator.
Sasha Hill
Sasha Hill
Sasha started making pottery as a coordinator of the student run Clay Collective at Barnard College in New York. She currently teaches adult and kids classes at Tribeca Clayworks and other studios in the city. Her work incorporates hand building and wheel throwing as well as surface decoration and painting on ceramics to create unique, beautiful, and useful objects. She also creates two dimensional art including illustration, watercolor and comics.
sashasanterhill.com
Taylor Clayton-Brooks
Taylor Clayton-Brooks
Artist
Mitu Haq
Lilian Wu Finkel
Ya’ela Wilschanski
Mitu Haq
Mitu is a ceramic artist. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Mitu holds a BFA in ceramics and art history. Her specialty is in hand-building ceramics using clay. She makes intricate ceramic sculptures, seemingly “alive” forms using stoneware, porcelain and sometimes low-fired clay. She also does demonstrations of basic hand building tips and techniques online to those either new to clay or interested in hand building.
Lilian Wu Finkel
Lilian is a Brooklyn-based potter, artist, and educator. She teaches people of all ages how to make pottery at Manhattan Youth / Downtown Community Center, and also teaches and works at Gasworks NYC and Clayhouse Brooklyn. She loves making both handbuilt and wheel-thrown forms, and especially enjoys helping her students throw large forms on the wheel. She graduated from Barnard College in 2016.
IG: @llills
Ye'ela Wilschanski
Ye'ela Wilschanski is an interdisciplinary NYC based artist. She received her MFA from Hunter College and her BFA in ceramics from Bezalel Academy. Her pottery and hand built ceramics musical instruments are incorporated into her wearable sculptures. Prior to moving to NYC, Ye'ela worked at a craft museum demonstrating pottery production on a kick wheel, pit firing and creating clay from local soil. She approaches pottery and hand built techniques with great respect and curiosity to their long traditions. She has been teaching nature and art since 2004.