Instructors

Holly Sears
Holly graduated from Mass College of Art in Ceramic Design. She has been teaching beginning and intermediate pottery, wheel throwing and hand building for fifteen years.

Jennifer Wyman
Jennifer Wyman has been practicing pottery since 1996. Born in Houston, Texas, she began ceramics at the University of North Texas and received a BFA in studio art at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has studied traditional pottery in both Ghana and Ethiopia. She has been teaching ceramics for five years, teaching wheelthrowing, handbuilding and glaze chemistry. She taught at the Boston Center for Adult Education, at the Dorchester Center for the Visual Arts and now at Feet of Clay Pottery.

Erika Johnson
Erika began working with clay in 1996, when she took a class in handbuilding, and learned about wheelthrowing in 2002 as a graduate student studying city planning. In 2004, she moved to Boston and found the Boston Center for Adult Education, where she was a student of Jennifer Wyman. Erika is a certified urban planner and has taught a planning apprenticeship course to middle-school students through Citizen Schools.  She loves the spark that students get when they put their skills to use and complete projects that showcase what they’ve learned.

Liz Rodriguez
Liz Rodriguez grew up in Brooklyn, NY and studied Fine Art painting at FIT in Manhattan.  As a teen, she spent her summers taking life drawing classes at Parsons School of Design. Upon moving to Massachusetts in 1995 from Chicago, she began working in clay and has yet to look at another medium since.  Her clay addiction has led her to take numerous workshops with some renowned ceramic artists such as Julia Galloway, Kari Radasch, Kristin Kieffer, Hayne Bayless and Michael Kline, just to name a few.  In 2010, she relinquished her corporate uniform and became a full-time ceramic artist, fulfilling a life-long dream.  Liz has been teaching pottery on and off since 2003 and is most thrilled when students develop their own aesthetic (and their own addiction) in clay as they hone wheel-throwing and hand-building skills.