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Faculty & Staff

Ned Levering Ned's work is influenced by 20th century English and Japanese pottery. He enjoys glaze chemistry and building out the studio space. Outside of pottery Ned enjoys brush making, chess, woodworking, tinkering with machines and electronics, and Starcraft 2 (not a dead game). He lives in Arlington with his partner Alex, dog Lola, and two children.	Ariane Curtin-Bowen Ariane joined Indigo Fire as a staff member in Jan, 2020. Her role here has quickly grown and we are now proud to have her as the Belmont Studio Manager. On top of being friendly, helpful and smart, Ariane has a strong background in ceramics. She has a BA from Bennington College where she concentrated in ceramics. Her practice focuses on undulation, line drawn surface design, and odd earrings. She is on the hunt for the perfect electric green.	Jared Hostutler Jared is the Watertown Studio Manager and primary Glaze Tech. They graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a BFA in Ceramics. Their pottery is made with functionality and comfort at the forefront, while also being a vehicle to showcase queer imagery and thematics in everyday space. When not working at Indigo, he's experimenting with stained and fused glass, and tending to his lizard and cat.
Diana Salcedo Diana graduated from MassArt with a BFA in Ceramics. She has a wide variety of creative interests that include tufting small rugs, crocheting, illustrating and painting funky tattoo flash. She joined us in 2023 and has quickly grown into a full time studio technician at both the Belmont and Watertown locations.	Annie Morford Annie is from Columbus, Ohio and has been working in clay for eight years. She makes both functional and sculptural work focusing on soft places to land. In her free time she dabbles in block printing and paper cutting, and almost always has a true crime podcast playing in the background.	Rachel Greider Rachel grew up in Ohio and moved to Watertown in 2022. She has been an artist her whole life, jumping around between mediums every couple years. She fell in love with wheel throwing in 2020. Currently, she’s experimenting with underglaze and wax surface decorations. In addition to pottery, Rachel loves the outdoors, painting, and taking care of her many plants and pup Kenai. Rachel is our weekend manager.
Lola Levering Lola is a happy go lucky pup with a wonky smile - you'll find her wherever Ned is!

Teachers

Nicole Ginzburg Nicole first fell in love with clay while pursuing an industrial design degree at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She most enjoys the modular, slow, and thoughtful process of handbuilding her pottery, and aims to create moments in the clay that reflect her journey in the making process.	Lauren Mueller Outside the studio Lauren is a teacher of teachers and spends much of their time immersed in the life of a small elementary school. Inside the studio Lauren is inspired to create seemingly simple objects that feel just right in your hands. Lauren loves talking to other potters about their processes and plans and is eternally grateful to be part of a community of artists and learners. They have been throwing at Indigo Fire for 6 years.	Zelda Mayer Zelda fell in love with clay eight years ago and continues to learn from the material each day. Her work focuses on functional, beautiful objects thrown on the wheel that often engage with historical craft traditions. Her practice explores clay’s unique behavior—balancing mastery with material resistance.
Joe Campo Joe is a long-time work exchange friend who dibbledabbles in glaze chemistry as much as he can! Being a proficient wheel thrower, He now teaches classes over at the Watertown studio.	Janet O'Malley A potter for over three decades, Janet has been molding, shaping and weaving her unique narrative into the essence of her creations, stopping along the way when life got busy, but always returning with unwavering passion. In her home-based studio, she uses stoneware and porcelain to create pieces which she sells in local stores, online and at events. Janet studied both at the Harvard Ceramics Studio and Mudville in Somerville.	Julie Peck Julie Peck has had a home studio in Somerville since finishing her MFA at U Mass-Dartmouth's Program in Artisanry. Her work is all handbuilt with thick slabs and coils and then carved. She balances her time between her studio, teaching and working as a MCC STARS artist-in-residence at several local schools. Learn more at JuliePeckCeramics.com
June Lee June Lee (she/her/hers) was born in Hong Kong and moved to the U.S. when she was 17. At age 18 she was introduced to ceramics at Wellesley High School. June is currently a studio artist and faculty member at Mudflat Pottery School. June is passionate about making her students (at any age!) fall in love with clay and she is skillful in teaching beginning wheel throwing while incorporating handbuilding and decorating tips. June's work has been known as "happy pottery" that makes people smile.	Taylor Byrne Taylor graduated from the University of Connecticut with a BFA in photography. While studying there, she was introduced to pottery and she hasn’t stopped throwing since. In addition to being a potter, Taylor has been teaching art at the high school level in public schools for the past 7 years. She is currently a Ceramics teacher at Somerville High School. Taylor is drawn to throwing on the pottery wheel because it brings moments of silence and creativity to an otherwise hectic life as a teacher	Donna Pioli Donna Pioli has been working with clay since she fell in love with ceramics over 15 years ago. She is known for imbuing her work with feminine, playful details. Donna delights in the control and malleability that clay affords and is eager to bring this passion to her teaching. Her studio is based in Dedham, MA at Mother Brook Arts & Community Center.
Kimberly Wutkiewicz Kim first fell in love with pottery 20 years ago when a friend taught her how to use a kick wheel at summer camp. Since then, she has seized every opportunity to get her hands into clay. She loves exploring simple, graceful forms and incorporating her love of nature into sgraffito and other surface design techniques. Kim joined Indigo Fire in 2021 after teaching wheel-throwing at Mudville Pottery for four years.	Sarah Carroll Sarah has worked with clay since studying full time at the School for Professional Crafts at the Worcester Center for Crafts 20 years ago. There she learned everything from wheel throwing and hand building to glaze preparation and firing all different types of kilns. She is drawn to the moments and materials on display when nature meets the human-constructed environment such as rust, weathered paint, and discarded bricks. Sarah has been throwing at Indigo Fire since 2019.	Marc Mancuso Marc is a maker, teacher, and thinker who likes minutae, processes, and materials. He has taught ceramics to learners of all ages in the Boston area since 1998. He has worked professionally, exhibited, and lectured, locally and internationally. He draws hundreds of patterns, and occasionally finds time to work with enamels, glass, fabric, and paper. He is totally engaged with the way humor and curiosity influence fine art, design, and even engineering.
Sara Jacobson As a child, Sara loved to draw. By her teens, that love had evolved into linoleum carving and print-making. Some 40 years later Sara is delighted to find that the sgraffito process of scratching through a layer of colored slip or underglaze to expose the clay surface beneath beautifully brings together her two childhood artistic pleasures; and the 3-dimensional clay forms add to the fun challenge of working in-the-round.	Robert Boyer Robert Boyer has been working in clay for over fifteen years, making on the wheel and exploring a variety of hand building techniques. He has previously taught both wheel throwing and hand building classes at MIT’s Student Art Association. His inspirations typically come from highly repetitive patterns in nature and leverage his background in the sciences looking to atomic structure and algorithmic thought processes as often as wood grain and feathers.	Alice Lee Alice (she/her) was introduced to pottery at her high school pottery club. She took her first wheelthrowing class after college and has been hooked ever since. She likes working with clay because there are so many techniques to try and clay can be reused over and over again. Her favorite thing to make are mugs.

Teachers

Weekend Staff

Weekend Staff

Andi MacKay Andi MacKay currently lives in the Boston area after graduating from MassArt in 2022 with her BFA in Ceramics. She has been working with clay for 8 years and found her passion for teaching while being a TA during her senior year at college. Since graduating, Andi has taught kindergarteners all the way to adults how to wheel throw, hand build, and sculpt with clay. In addition to teaching, she also works as a studio technician at The Clay School in Lynn.	Cam Blondin Cam is from Worcester, MA, and graduated in 2023 with a BFA in ceramics and art history from the University of Hartford. She enjoys hand building sculptural pieces and experimenting with different glazes and mixed media in her work, such as glass, thread, and paper. Cam works on Saturdays in Belmont.	Emily Golinko Emily is a multimedia artist from Newton, MA. In her art practice, Emily draws inspiration from her time growing up in the Boston music scene and from her time living and studying art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. When she is not working her day-job as a graphic designer, Emily can be found camping somewhere in remote New England, thrifting at Savers, or at home lounging in a robe luxuriously eating charcuterie. Emily's love language is memes! Emily works on Sundays at Watertown.
Elle Gys Elle is a Somerville native and a senior at Somerville High School. She has been constantly in the studio for almost 2 years after taking a ceramics class in her sophomore year. When she isn't wheel throwing, most of her time is spent rowing and swimming for her high school and club teams. Elle works Saturdays at Watertown.	Kate Shannon Kate is from Sudbury, Mass and works part time at the Watertown studio. She does not have much pottery experience but enjoys expressing creativity through crocheting and interior decorating. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and spending time with her pug, Mack. For most of the year she works as a machine operator for TLS Contractors.	Eden Gresseth Eden is our Monday night staff over at the Belmont location
Maddy Edens Maddy has her BA in Biology but is currently pursuing a career in ceramics and works part time at the Belmont studio. She works mostly in handbuilding and enjoys creating functional pieces. In her free time she enjoys reading, traveling, and hiking.	Ode Ortiz-Wren Ode is a transdisciplinary artist with a background in ceramics, illustration, music, woodworking, and mixed media, using these mediums to explore gift giving, performance, and place-making. Their work is equal parts practical, personal, and poetic, heavily inspired by repurposed materials, gaps in space, and lineage/inheritance. outside of work, Ode likes going to savers, doing the dishes, and spamming their loved ones with craigslist posts.

Work Exchange

Work Exchange

Annie Thompson Annie took her first pottery class in college. She continued to work with clay through graduate school as a form of meditation and outlet for stress. After more than a decade away, she returned to the studio and her fondness for working with clay was immediately reignited. Annie teaches pottery classes at Munroe Center for the Arts in Lexington. Outside of the studio she conducts research and lectures at MIT.	Genevieve Winn Genevieve has worked with clay on and off for many years and is excited to finally immerse herself in the pottery world at Indigo Fire as a Work Exchange. She has been drawing before she could write, and started sewing garments and bags when she was eight years old. In college, she lived in the "Fiber Arts" house and learned felting, knitting, and embroidery. Outside of the studio, she works as a college career advisor, and outside of work you can find her running or cycling.	Laurie Mass Laurie is thrilled to be about one week into the work exchange program at Watertown Indigo Fire Studio! She's been into clay for about 10 years. She has no formal art training and loves to be in the studio handbuilding and listening to where the clay wants to take her. Retired from a career in nursing, Laurie's motto is becoming increasingly more, "Don't just do something, sit there", except at the clay studio, while practicing the qi arts, or hanging with friends and family.
Gabe Springer Gabe is our Friday evening work exchange in Belmont. He was inspired to start working with clay by his grandfather. Gabe is headed to medical school soon!	Natalie Volin Natalie first started crafting with clay in the spring of 2021 at Indigo Fire. While she is still working on creating more functional pieces, she has found great value in the contrast between her studio time and her 9-to-5 role as a research manager. As a glaze tech, she aims to deepen her understanding of the transformations that occur within the kiln to better appreciate the nuanced beauty of each piece that emerges.	Adam Clemens Adam started taking pottery classes at the studio in 2021 and now helps at the Belmont studio as a glaze technician assistant. He enjoys experimenting with surface designs and glaze applications. You can find Adam biking around Cambridge/Somerville, otherwise he’s probably baking or knitting or hanging out with his cat.
Jocelyn Rogers Jocelyn first started pottery in college and after several years off, she came to a sip n’ spin and rediscovered her love of throwing. Outside of the studio, she works as an occupational therapist in child & adolescent behavioral health where she calms the chaos through creative play.	Kate Dunlevy Kate is our Tuesday evening work exchange in Belmont. While attending SMFA for art therapy with a concentration of ceramics in 2009, Kate found a love for creating and getting her hands dirty. After a 10 year hiatus, she joined Indigo Fire. Kate evolved into a work exchange role and teaches Sunday morning workshops. You can find Kate at the studio creating functional pieces intended to hold moments, alongside her friendly black lab, Ellie.	Hana Oji Hana is an architect with a love for working with her hands. Hana appreciates the necessarily slow creative process of pottery, and is fascinated with bright colors, patterns and designs. She loves experimenting with multiple clay bodies, and making an effort to not to be so timid and precious in her creativity. Hana is our Monday Watertown work exchange.
Rachel Nathan Rachel is a full-time mom and a part-time artist. Her first love is fiber art and all things involving yarn. She spins, weaves, knits, and crochets. She has been doing ceramics for about four years, and thinks art is more important than cleaning except when she is doing her work exchange in the studio.	Caralyn Aufiero Caralyn is our Thursday evening work exchange. Her mean-muggin pots can be found in our Watertown location.

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