Mudflat Faculty

Cary Atsalis received his BFA from Bates College. He sells his functional clay work at craft shows and at Mudflat Gallery. His work was included in the juried show "The State of Clay, 2007". Cary has been the ceramics studio manager and a teacher at Castle Hill, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro MA.

Susan Bernstein is a Mudflat studio artist. She was a multimedia artist, working at Turtle Studio in Watertown for 6 years before she discovered clay. Susan's handbuilt work can be seen at Mudflat Gallery.

Hoay Cheah studied at Ohio Wesleyan University. She teaches ceramics classes at the Boston Center for Adult Education and MIT/SAA. She has a studio in Somerville and sells her pottery at Mudflat Gallery. Hoay was a recipient of a 2002 Somerville Arts Council Artist Fellowship grant.

Susan DeVeber has studied at Massachusetts College of Art and at Haystack. She uses intricately carved decoration to enhance her wheelthrown functional pieces. Sue is a Mudflat studio artist, as well as our Technical Director for the past 7 years.

Gabrielle Fougere received her BFA in Ceramics from Massachusetts College of Art. Her claywork is handbuilt decorative boxes and one of a kind planters. She sells her work at Mudflat Gallery. Her work is included in two Lark Books: "Making and Installing Handmade Tiles" and "500 Tiles". Gabrielle is Mudflat's Administrative Assistant.

Wayne Fuerst is a potter and papermaker. He studied at the University of Green Bay and at the University of Southern Maine and apprenticed with potter Tom Krueger. He has also taught at the Worcester Craft Center, the Boston Center for Adult Education, and the Fuller Craft Museum.

Howard Gerstein received his BFA from the University of Cincinnati and has been working in clay since 1985, with a studio at Mudflat. He currently teaches ceramics at the Danforth Museum School and Boston University. Howard’s work is included in the recently published Lark Book, "500 Animals in Clay" and in the juried show "The State of Clay, 2007".

Lynn Gervens received her BFA from the University of Illinois. She has been teaching ceramics since 1977 at Mudflat, other local art centers, public school programs and preschools. Lynn is the Executive Director at Mudflat.

Leah Guerin has a studio in Sutton MA, producing tiles and functional pottery. She has been a high school art teacher for the past 7 years, receiving her Master of Art Education degree from UMass Dartmouth, as well as BFAs in ceramics and art education.

Arthur Halvorsen is a graduate of Maine College of Art where he received his BFA in ceramics. Arthur's work is handbuilt functional earthenware using bisque molds, slips, stamps, sprig molds and colorful runny glazes. His work references 18th century European metal and soft paste porcelain works.

Anne Hodgsdon received her MFA from Boston University. She has her teaching certificate and has taught high school art. Her own claywork is functional porcelain with sculptural elements. In 2004, she participated in a workshop at Haystack with ceramic artist Tony Marsh.

Lisa Knebel received her BA from Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA and has also studied at Massachusetts College of Art and the Museum School. Lisa is a Mudflat studio artist; she sells her work locally at The Cleverhand Gallery in Wellesley, Hog on Ice Gallery in Newburyport and Mudflat Gallery in Cambridge.

David LaPierre has been working in clay for more than 25 years. He received his BFA from the University of Connecticut. His claywork is wheelthrown, using porcelain and stoneware. David works in series of multiples of the same form while manipulating the surfaces.

Cathy Lu is a graduate of Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She also studied at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and at Harbin Institute of Technology in China. Her claywork is hand-constructed, usually slab built, large form figurative sculptures, with references to abstraction and pop culture. Cathy is Mudflat’s Artist-in-Residence for 2007-08.

Julie Peck received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She served as an apprentice at Moravian Pottery and Tileworks, Doylestown, PA and was an Artist-in-residence at ARCO, Lisbon, Portugal. She shows her lowfire tiles and functional ware locally and nationally. Her tiles will be included in the new Lark book, "500 Tiles".

Monica Ripley received her MFA from the University of Nebraska. She was Mudflat's Artist-in-Residence for 2003-04. Monica's wheelthrown porcelain is influenced by historic European ceramics and silver, and by her interest in Chinese ceramics. Monica is a recipient of a 2004 Somerville Arts Council Artist Fellowship grant. Her work was included in the juried show "The State of Clay, 2007".

Moriah Tumbleson-Shaw received her BA at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, where she was first introduced to clay. Her work can be found on-line, as well as at Mudflat Gallery and other local galleries. She is a member of Mudflat’s technical support staff.