INSTRUCTORS | redoxclaystudio

Roger Yee is the founder of Red Ox Clay Studio and a ceramics teacher with 18+ years of classroom experience and over 30 years of experience as a ceramic artist. Roger is a highly accomplished artist with a strong commitment to developing innovative, creative, and fun learning environments.

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Zoe Dering is an artist and pastry chef native to the Bay Area, currently living in Oakland, Ca.

Her current body of work explores the meeting point between primitive craft and our modern lives. She creates pieces intended for every day use that reflect the belief that we should have a closer relationship to the fundamental objects essential to our every day lives, how they are made and the role they play in our personal and collective histories.

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Takemi Tsuruta was born September 26th 1976 in Oakland California. All throughout his life, he has been interested in the arts from musical and performing arts to the visual fine arts. Tsuruta’s father, an architect, and mother, an educator and pianist, taught him at a young age to recognize and appreciate different creative outlets and aesthetics.

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Kathy, the founder of Crockett Pottery, has been a maker of functional clay vessels for more than thirty years.

Her California Craft Style has a mix and match approach and is inspired by the colorful ware of mid 20th century California art pottery. Archetypal Vessels are informed by her study and fascination with ancient pottery forms, especially those from Greece.

She produces Cassoulet Ware for several French restaurants and for cassoulet aficionados all over the United States.

Kathy, the founder of Crockett Pottery, has been a maker of functional clay vessels for more than thirty years.

Her California Craft Style has a mix and match approach and is inspired by the colorful ware of mid 20th century California art pottery. Archetypal Vessels are informed by her study and fascination with ancient pottery forms, especially those from Greece.

She produces Cassoulet Ware for several French restaurants and for cassoulet aficionados all over the United States.

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Born in Oakland, CA, Rosalinda's early years were focused on the aesthetics of functional pottery at the wheel. Currently, Rosalinda is inspired by the sculptural diversity of many Bay Area Artists. She enjoys the process of creating voluminous forms that are slab built, then altered and textured expressing the immediate response clay gives back to create timeless qualities of touch, environment and nature.

Born in Oakland, CA, Rosalinda's early years were focused on the aesthetics of functional pottery at the wheel. Currently, Rosalinda is inspired by the sculptural diversity of many Bay Area Artists. She enjoys the process of creating voluminous forms that are slab built, then altered and textured -- expressing the immediate response clay gives back -- to create timeless qualities of touch, environment, and nature.

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Janina started her Art career baking cakes in 2008. In 2014 she decided to explore other mediums by pursuing her Bachelors of Arts degree at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. While at UNCW her emphasis was MIG welding steel sculptures and the relationship they played with non metal materials. After taking her second wheel throwing class, Janina's art trajectory shifted from steel to clay.

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Roger Yee

Roger Yee

Roger Yee

Lisa Graham Lee

Lisa Graham Lee

Lisa Graham Lee

Zoe Dering

Zoe Dering

Zoe Dering

Takemi Tsuruta

Takemi Tsuruta

Takemi Tsuruta

Kathy Kearns

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Kathy Kearns

Rosalinda Grejsen

Rosalinda Grejsen

Rosalinda Grejsen

Janina Plascencia

Janina Plascencia

Janina Plascencia

Zoe Dering