Pottery Advisory Committee
Advisory nominations are now open.
The committee was initially formed in 2024 through appointments. Since then, four additional seats have been added through a combination of elections and appointments. All terms are three years.
Elections are now open for four fall-start seats. The Pottery’s long-term goal is a stable structure of 12 rotating members, with approximately four seats rotating each year—ensuring continuity while creating regular opportunities for community participation and representation. (Note: membership will temporarily exceed 12 as the founding cohort completes its term.)
Each year, the community will elect two members; the Pottery administration will select two additional members from the nominees to ensure representation across disciplines, students, and faculty.
**Key dates**
Nominations close: June 14 at 11:59 p.m.
Voting opens: June 16
Voting closes: June 27 at 11:59 p.m.
Results announced: Summer term
Pottery Advisory Committee Nominations – Fill out form
Meet the committee:
Seek out these studio members in the studio or submit an anonymous inquiry via our Advisory Feedback Form.
Carol Adams Handbuilding long-time student |
Carol Adams took her first class at GHP in 1976 when she lived across the street at 15 Jones Street when in law school, and except for a 12 year hiatus when her kids were young in the 90’s, she has been here ever since. Everything she knows about ceramics, she has learned at GHP from gifted teachers and fellow students. It is her community and has sustained through several life crises. Carol LOVEs having her hands in clay! |
Larry Baker Wheel long-time student |
Graduating college without the skills and knowledge base necessary to succeed as studio potter, Larry Baker eventually became a clinical psychologist and pottery became the aspirational retirement plan. The plan got enacted a little more than 10 years ago; at GHP because it was a (relatively) cost-effective way to 1) gain exposure to great teachers and 2) have relatively open access to practice time. Admittedly, the Pottery is his de facto senior day-care center, but it exposes him to people across age, and other demographics. The cool thing is that clay is an initial commonality that gets us all excited, regardless of demographics, skills level, learning goals, politics, etc. |
Francesca Canin Wheel long-time student |
Francesca is a Mental Health Counselor and ceramic artist with a Masters in Social Work from Simmons College in Boston. For the past 30 plus years, Francesca has been working in school settings providing support services to teens and families as well as teaching ceramics(wheel). She earned her BS degree from Penn State University, where she was able to take full advantage of the incredible ceramic dept. Taking classes, learning glaze chemistry, and learning to fire gas, salt, and raku kilns. Francesca is a believer of working in clay being therapeutic and relaxing and enjoys sharing this through teaching. Most of her work is wheel thrown using slips to decorate. |
 Sandi Fellman
Wheel long-time student |
Historically a distinguished photographer, in 2012 Sandi Fellman turned her creative energies to ceramics. She took her first ever class at GHP, and became instantly “addicted”. She currently teaches advanced wheel at GHP Chelsea, and continues to make much of her work at GHP Jones St. Her pieces are hand thrown, sometimes altered, and one of a kind. Often unique metallic, and luster finishes are applied. A subtle “less is more” aesthetic, as well as her career as a photographer define her deceptively simple pieces. Sensuality of form, palette, and surface, merge uniquely in each piece. The play of dualities, light/dark, inside/outside, shine/matte, modern/ancient, and perfection/imperfection, are a constant discourse in the work. “my process is visceral and intuitive, and it is a pleasure to make things in clay, that are both beautiful and functional”. |
Liz Krisel Handbuilding long-time student |
Liz Krisel came to Greenwich House Pottery in 2020 to learn slipcasting, which appealed to the Industrial Designer in her(RISD 1975). Lately she has primarily been handbuilding; most recently pushing the limits of “finger carving”; exploring organic geometry, and celebrating the unique plasticity of clay. She loves the light and upbeat atmosphere at the Chelsea Studio where she works in the fall and winter months. In the spring and summer, she lives on Fire Island, where she has her own ceramics studio. |
 Luigi Lake
Wheel newer student |
Luigi Lake is a Filipino ceramicist living in the United States. He was born and raised in the Philippines in a household shaped by internationalism. His artistic roots began in music and the performing arts, a path that ultimately brought him to the U.S. on a full music scholarship. His journey into ceramics began in 2022. Through thrown forms adorned with inlays and carved reliefs, he creates vessels that explore lineage, memory, and belonging. Each piece is an offering, a reflection of where he comes from, and a tribute to the lives and hands of his grandmothers, both pioneers of their time. His grandmothers were breadwinners, socialites, and art collectors, and the works they gathered and cherished were eventually passed down to him, forming a quiet but enduring foundation for his own practice. Luigi’s work is rooted in a longing for Eden, not as perfection, but as peace, something gentle and almost forgotten. Drawing from gifts both tangible and unseen, passed down through generations, his work seeks to immortalize memory into form. The result is an airy, heavenly serenity, like a piece of the sky you can hold, or a moment from the past that can never quite be returned to. |
Jerry Lue Wheel Studio Assistant |
Jerry Lue is an artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He has been working as a studio assistant and teacher at Greenwich House since 2024. Jerry first started pottery post pandemic in 2022 and he instantly fell in love with the amazing community of artists and makers. He really enjoyed the social aspect of the pottery studio and the collective knowledge sharing that everyone took part in. Jerry’s work is centered around exploring the chemistry of clay and glazes and the effects of different kiln atmospheres. His current research is centered around non-zinc crystal formations and alternative applications of bismuth. Jerry holds a BFA from RISD, and before doing pottery he did illustration and design. |
Barbara Marks Handbuilding newer student |
Barbara Marks is a graphic designer (by profession), and a multidisciplinary artist. She paints, draws, and works with clay; she weaves fiber and paper; and is a sometimes printmaker. Marks has a BFA from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, and an MFA from Brooklyn College CUNY. She has been awarded artist residencies in Italy, France, Portugal, Ireland, the Arctic Circle, and across the U.S. and has shown her work throughout the Northeast. Barbara arrived at GHP in January 2024 to take a class in beginning handbuilding. Since then, she has immersed herself in the world of clay—handbuilding, moldmaking/slipcasting, paper clay, surface techniques, majolica, and so on. She feels very fortunate to have landed at the Pottery and in this community. Her work can be viewed at barbarammarks.com |
Gina Tibbott Handbuilding faculty member |
Gina Tibbott is a ceramic artist and educator living in Brooklyn, NY. She has been a faculty member at Greenwich House Pottery since 2019. Her work focuses on ancient ceramic technologies, an interest developed during years working as a field archaeologist. She has worked for several research projects, including the University of Cincinnati’s Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia, and UC-Berkeley’s Pompeii Artifact Life History Project. Tibbott is also a technical illustrator and cartographer for academic publications including Life & Death in the Roman Suburb and Dolia: The Containers That Made Rome an Empire of Wine and serves on the board of the Archaeological Institute of America’s New York Society. She holds an MFA in ceramics from The George Washington University and an MA in archaeology at Temple University. Her work can be viewed at fieldworkceramics.com |
 Jane Tucker
Wheel long-time student |
Jane Tucker first learned how to throw on the wheel as a teenage high school student. She continued taking classes in college as well but then took several decades off, though always kept her tools and bats in a box in storage. About ten years ago, she got them out again and became a regular weekend student at the GHP Jones Street studio, enrolled in the Saturday morning wheel classes and extended her practice into the afternoons and often into Sunday’s open studios sessions as well. This creative outlet and her interaction with other clay-focused people is inspiring and therapeutic and feeds her soul (and she has bought some new tools along the way.) |
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