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Ceramics

About the Studios

Come take a tour! Just call 212.415.5565. When you come by, you’ll find studios equipped with 25 electric potters' wheels, a gas reduction kiln and three electric kilns. During the fall and spring terms you’ll have the opportunity to take classes using stoneware, and in the summer months porcelain is the material of choice. All work is glaze-fired to cone 10. Clay is included in the cost of tuition (unless you use bagged clay, which may be purchased for $20 per 25-pound bag). Firing charge is five cents per cubic inch for two firings for all work made in classes and workshops. Students must supply their own tools, which may be purchased from 92Y. Open studio time is available to all students currently enrolled in one of our classes. A $4/hr. fee applies.

Director, Ceramics Center

Robert Silverman

Robert Silverman joined the 92nd Street Y as Director of the Ceramic Center in August 2007. He oversees a large and diverse program offering over 20 classes and serving 1,100 students a year.

Robert Silverman

Robert Silverman joined the 92nd Street Y as Director of the Ceramic Center in August 2007. He oversees a large and diverse program offering over 20 classes and serving 1,100 students a year. The program encompasses after-school classes for children and teenagers and a variety of day and night classes for adults. Along with program development, Mr. Silverman's responsibilities include recruiting and managing a faculty of a dozen working artists and managing the professionally equipped ceramics studios.

Originally trained as a social geographer, Mr. Silverman began his career as a ceramic artist over 25 years ago while studying in Japan where exposure to beautiful handmade objects used in daily life inspired him to pursue a career in the arts. He has exhibited internationally and his work has been included in shows at The Museum of Art and Design, New York, the European Ceramic Work Center in the Netherlands, the Mint Museum in North Carolina and the Ramada Renaissance Hotel Corporation in Connecticut, among others. Mr. Silverman came to the 92nd Street Y from Louisiana State University, whose graduate ceramics program, under his leadership and that of his co-chair, was ranked among the top five such programs in the country. He has also taught at Arizona State University and the Massachusetts College of Art. He has been awarded a variety of grants and fellowships and his work has been included in gallery and museum shows across the US and in magazines such as Ceramics Monthly, American Craft Magazine and Studio Potter Magazine, as well as in the books The Craft and Art of Clay (Susan Peterson, Prentice Hall, 2004) and Post Modern Ceramics (Mark Del Vecchio, Thames and Hudson, 2001).

Robert Silverman holds an B.A. in Social Geography from Clark University, a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute and an M.F.A from Alfred University.

Faculty

Cammi Climaco

Cammi Climaco

Cammi Climaco is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Cammi studied Crafts at Kent State University and Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has taught at The University of North Caro ...

Cammi Climaco

Cammi Climaco

Cammi Climaco is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Cammi studied Crafts at Kent State University and Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has taught at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Pratt Institute of Art and Design. She has done residencies at The Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen and the Lower East Side Print Shop. Cammi shows nationally.

Cammi Climaco is currently teaching the following classes:

Wheel (Beginner)

Carol Cutler

Carol Cutler

Carol Cutler currently teaches ceramics in the Art Center's afterschool program and in the 60+ Program of 92nd Street Y. In addition, she is director of Ceramics for the Y Camps at the Henry Ka ...

Carol Cutler

Carol Cutler

Carol Cutler currently teaches ceramics in the Art Center's afterschool program and in the 60+ Program of 92nd Street Y. In addition, she is director of Ceramics for the Y Camps at the Henry Kaufman Campgrounds, where she developed art programs for special-needs children. In conjunction with the American Craft Museum, Carol developed programs to bring art education in the NYC public schools. Carol has also taught art at the Trinity School Day Camp, the Calhoun School and the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. Her work has been shown at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, the Paley Design Center, Wallingford Community Art Center and Arteffects Gallery in Philadelphia. She received a BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Carol Cutler is currently teaching the following classes:

Handbuilding and Wheel (Beginner)

Sculpture and Pottery / Ages 9-12

Works by Carol Cutler
Carol Cutler work 1
Carol Cutler work 2
Sarah Emond

Sarah Emond

Sarah Emond has a M.A. New York University in sculpture. Emond works professionally as both a sculptor and functional ceramist. She works primarily on individual commissions and designing unique ce ...

Sarah Emond

Sarah Emond

Sarah Emond has a M.A. New York University in sculpture. Emond works professionally as both a sculptor and functional ceramist. She works primarily on individual commissions and designing unique ceramic pieces for culinary photo shoots. Her work is held in private collections in the U.S and in Germany. Emond lives and works in New York City. Sarah has taught at Crafts Students League, Jewish Community Center, City College and Hunter College. She teaches corporate classes and private lessons at 92Y.

Sarah Emond is currently teaching the following classes:

Handbuilding and Wheel (Beginner/Intermediate)

Handbuilding and Wheel (Intermediate/Advanced)

Veronica Frenning

Veronica Frenning

Veronica Frenning received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has taught ceramics classes at Abrons Arts Center/Henry Street Settlement, City ...

Veronica Frenning

Veronica Frenning

Veronica Frenning received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has taught ceramics classes at Abrons Arts Center/Henry Street Settlement, City College of New York, SUNY Nassau Community College, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Hudson Guild. Veronica has participated in residencies at The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Bamboo Curtain Studio in Taipei, Abrons Arts Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council SPARC and Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. She has also completed the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and is a recipient of a Jerome Travel and Study Grant. Her recent work has been exhibited at Blackburn 20|20, Proteus Gowanus, Wave Hill, Galerija Palach, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Abrons Arts Center and MASS MoCA. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Veronica Frenning is currently teaching the following classes:

Handbuilding and Wheel (Beginner)

Handbuilding and Wheel (Beginner)

Ceramics for Beginners

Lana Hirsch

Lana Hirsch

Lana Hirsch studied at Hunter College and The Art Students League.

Lana Hirsch

Lana Hirsch

Lana Hirsch studied at Hunter College and The Art Students League.

Lana Hirsch is currently teaching the following classes:

Sculpture and Pottery / Ages 7-9

Works by Lana Hirsch
Lana Hirsch work 1
Ibrahim Khazzaka

Ibrahim Khazzaka

Ibrahim Khazzaka was born in Beirut, Lebanon and is currently living and teaching in a Brooklyn. He earned his BA in Clinical Psychology from Université Libanaise (2012).

Since 2015, ...

Ibrahim Khazzaka

Ibrahim Khazzaka

Ibrahim Khazzaka was born in Beirut, Lebanon and is currently living and teaching in a Brooklyn. He earned his BA in Clinical Psychology from Université Libanaise (2012).

Since 2015, he has worked in ceramic design, production and art studios giving him a wide variety of skills in the operation of studios as well as traditional and new production processes.

His current work is process oriented and seeks to explore belonging and transcendence while reflecting on the tensions and emotions of being a new immigrant.

As a teacher, he is passionate about seeing his students refine their skills in hand building/wheel throwing/surface decoration techniques and pushing them to express themselves in a judgment-free environment.

Ibrahim Khazzaka is currently teaching the following classes:

Ceramics for Beginners

Wheel (Beginner)

Carol Lewis

Carol Lewis

Carol Grocki Lewis has been on the faculty at the 92nd Street Y since 1995. She earned her M.A. in Museum Studies and Art History from the Gallatin Division at New York University in 1992 and her B ...

Carol Lewis

Carol Lewis

Carol Grocki Lewis has been on the faculty at the 92nd Street Y since 1995. She earned her M.A. in Museum Studies and Art History from the Gallatin Division at New York University in 1992 and her B.S. in Art Education from SUNY College at Buffalo. She has been a teaching ceramic artist from 92nd Street Y at P.S. 37 (River East K-5) in East Harlem (An Empire State Partnership). In addition to teaching at 92Y, Lewis has taught ceramics and art at Earthworks, Marymount Manhattan College and various public and private schools. Her work was most recently included in an exhibit, History in the Making: Ceramic Traditions and Contemporary Pots in Rochester, NY and received an honorable mention from the juror, Ron Meyers. Her work has also been included in Strictly Functional Ceramics Exhibits.

Carol Lewis is currently teaching the following classes:

Handbuilding and Wheel (Beginner)

Sculpture and Pottery / Ages 5-7

Handbuilding and Wheel (Beginner/Intermediate)

Works by Carol Lewis
Carol Lewis work 1
Carol Lewis work 2
Christian Dietkus Lord

Christian Dietkus Lord

Christian Dietkus Lord was born in Oakland California and received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2005 and his MFA from ...

Christian Dietkus Lord

Christian Dietkus Lord

Christian Dietkus Lord was born in Oakland California and received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2005 and his MFA from Columbia University in 2013. Working across medias, including, ceramic, steel, paint and rubber, his work combines fine art, craft and activist modalities to explore issues of consumer culture, branding and colonialism. He has exhibited nationally and internationally including Deitch Projects, Family Business, Salon 94, Louis B. James in New York as well as the Nicaraguan Biennial, Central American Biennial and a forthcoming solo exhibition at 9.99 gallery in Guatemala City. He is also the recipient of the Michael S. Vivo Memorial Prize and the Fred A. Lane Prize.

Christian Dietkus Lord is currently teaching the following classes:

Ceramics for Beginners

Wheel (Beginner)

Handbuilding and Wheel (Intermediate/Advanced)

Karen Tepaz

Karen Tepaz

Karen Tepaz, born in Los Angeles, CA, holds an M.F.A in Sculpture from Yale University School of Art and a B.F.A in Ceramics from California State University, Long Beach. Recent exhibitions include ...

Karen Tepaz

Karen Tepaz

Karen Tepaz, born in Los Angeles, CA, holds an M.F.A in Sculpture from Yale University School of Art and a B.F.A in Ceramics from California State University, Long Beach. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Sardine gallery, (Brooklyn, NY) Thomas Hunter Projects (NY, NY) Cacttus gallery (Long Beach, CA), and group shows at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), The Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC (NY,NY), The Gallery ATLAS (Newburgh, NY), The Whitney Houston Biennial (NY,NY), GlenLily Grounds- Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition (Newburgh, NY), BOMB POP-UP (Brooklyn, NY), among others. In 2018 Tepaz co-curated Flat Touch and In Between the Lines in Steuben Gallery at Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY). She is the recipient of the Art Farm Nebraska Residency, and this summer Tepaz will exhibit new work in Berlin, Germany part of an exchange project between Los Angeles and Berlin galleries. Tepaz lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Karen Tepaz is currently teaching the following classes:

Sculpture and Pottery

Figure Sculpting with Clay

Works by Karen Tepaz
Karen Tepaz work 1
Allison Valchuis

Allison Valchuis

Allison Valchuis is a sculptor and educator with over 15 years’ experience in community arts education. Allison joined the 92Y Art Center staff in 2010. She is a member of the 2015 Community ...

Allison Valchuis

Allison Valchuis

Allison Valchuis is a sculptor and educator with over 15 years’ experience in community arts education. Allison joined the 92Y Art Center staff in 2010. She is a member of the 2015 Community Arts Education Leadership Institute through the National Guild for Community Arts Education. Prior to her 92Y career, Allison worked with the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to help bring design-thinking to the classroom across the country through professional development programs for educators, teen programs, and curriculum development. She also served as an Americorps*VISTA at Rhode Island School of Design’s free teen portfolio prep and outreach program Project Open Door where she organized community partnerships and developed college readiness programs.

As an artist, her work explores process, material, weight, and balance through various ceramic practices, drawing, and a love of good craftsmanship. She received her BFA in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design and has been awarded residencies and scholarships at RISD’s European Honors Program in Rome, Italy, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME, Ox-Bow, School of Arts and Artists Residencies in Saugatuck, MI, and Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, MT.

Allison Valchuis is currently teaching the following classes:

Contemporary Art & Architecture Tour: Crystal Bridges

Works by Allison Valchuis
Allison Valchuis work 1
Allison Valchuis work 2