Ceramics
Manor Mill has a new ceramics studio with tables for hand building, 7 wheels, and 2 electric kilns. Small classes and open studio hours are available, and we are actively adding classes with local professional instructors to teach classes at all levels, as well as individual "It’s a Date” try-it classes and other occasional workshops. Manor Mill also features some of the most talented ceramicists in the region as part of its retail gallery and fine arts space, with the aim to connect people new ceramics with seasoned artists who have mastered their craft.
Click the photos below to register for our current pottery classes!
8-Week Tuesday Wheel Throwing Course
with Shea Kister
January 28 - March 18, 6-9PM
Special Announcement:
We are working to accommodate those of you who are interested in open studio memberships, taking classes, or teaching here at Manor Mill. At this time, our studio memberships are full, but we do have one-day and 8-week classes available with spots opening up as they become avaialable. Current students are able to continue on in our classes and if they decide not to continue, that is when we open up those spots to the public. Please fill out the form here to be put on our waitlist for classes or studio memberships. We will email you when a space becomes available.
8-Week Classes are held Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday evenings from 6-9PM, as well as a Thursday morning class from 9AM-12PM.
Try It/ It’s a Date One-Day Classes are held on weekends.
Thank You!
Meet the Ceramists at Manor Mill
Lindsay Hitch
Lindsay Hitch is a ceramic artist that creates whimsical and functional pottery. Her work is full of bright colors, bold patterns and fun illustrations. She earned her BFA from Towson University and now spends her time making with clay, teaching about clay, and selling clay - you may know her from Clayworks Supplies. Lindsay loves any craft that she can get her hands on, but it's safe to say that ceramics is her passion.
Instagram: @lindsayhitchceramics
Shea Kister
Shea Kister is a ceramicist and interdisciplinary artist originally from Omaha, Nebraska. She received her BFA in 2017 from the University of South Dakota and has recently received her MFA from Kansas State University in 2022. Inspired by her study of trauma’s effects on memory as well as personal and social relationships, her work enlists notions of fragmentation, discontinuity, memory distortion, and dissociation through the use of scale, surface application, and materials. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions across the United States, most recently in Illinois, Montana, Kansas, Washington, and Maryland. She is currently a long-term resident with Baltimore Clayworks in Baltimore, Maryland.
Instagram: @sheakisterceramics
Brad Blair
Brad Blair is an artist, educator and gallery curator living in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2014, he earned an M.F.A. degree from Florida State University (FSU) focusing on ceramics and sculpture. Prior to FSU, he graduated from Towson University in with a B.S. degree, majoring in Art & Design. Aside from making artwork and exhibiting it locally and nationally, Blair is also an adjunct professor at Towson University, and both a ceramics instructor and gallery curator here at Manor Mill. Using his sense of creativity, imagination, skills, and patience, Brad will help you find your way in clay!
Instagram: @bradblairceramics
Teresa Stecher
Teresa Stecher is a maker of handcrafted pottery.
Born in California, she’s been living in Northern Baltimore County since 2016. Aside from a recent two year adventure living and doing pottery in Hawaii, she has practiced her craft in a barn on her property, listening to the river and trying to acclimate to the seasons. She enjoys adding a variety of surface decoration to her work and is inspired by all the places she’s lived. The city, the ocean, and the rural landscapes of Maryland all find a place in her work.
She is the Ceramics Studio Manager here at Manor Mill where she teaches classes and sells handmade work in the gallery.
Instagram: @barndancerpottery
Stephanie Imbierowicz
Stephanie recently received a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Salisbury University with a concentration in ceramics. While at university she excelled at her craft, placing first in her senior exhibition. She enjoys creating expressive sculptural work that explores the sub conscious mind, using androgynous characters that unravel their stories to the viewer through unique, relatable personal narrative.
Stephanie strives to create a fun and safe classroom environment for students of all ages to feel comfortable expressing themselves and their innermost creativity through the highly-versatile medium of clay.
Instagram: @wonkybier
Tina Haines
Tina Haines is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Phoenix, MD. She specializes in ceramic home goods and sculptures. Haines graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a degree in Sculpture; where she focused on Ceramics and Community Arts. In addition to hosting workshops out of her studio, she has taught at Baltimore Clayworks, Chesapeake Arts Center, and Phillips Programs. Follow along with her artwork and flower gardening below.
Instagram: @tina.haines