Sarah Caruso – Meetinghouse Owner and Operator
Sarah Caruso
Email: sarah@meetinghouseclay.com
Sarah Caruso is passionate about clay, about art, about people, and about building community. And good food, but thankfully the rest of her passions often provide opportunities to make and share good food. Sarah brings two decades of experience as a working clay artist, seventeen years teaching ceramics and 8 years of professional studio management and program direction to her resume as owner/operator of Meetinghouse Clay Center. Sarah graduated from Skidmore College in 1995 with a BS in Ceramics and Metalsmithing, and earned her MS in Art Education from The College of Saint Rose in 1998.
Sue Wadoski
Sue Wadoski holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Boston University and had a career in creative services management, communications, and marketing in Fortune 100 companies before focusing full time on clay. She studied ceramics at the DeCordova Museum School and at the Harvard University Ceramics Program with Makoto Yabe. Her work has been included in major juried exhibits in St. Petersburg, FL, Seagrove NC, Lorton,VA, and Lexington MA. Her current passion is wood fired fired sculptural vessels. She studies ceramics from many cultures, and her strongest influence is contemporary Japanese ceramics.
Corrinn Jusell
Website: madebycorrinn.com
Email: madebycorrinn@gmail.com
Corrinn Jusell earned a BFA in Ceramics from the University of Massachusetts | Dartmouth in 2018. Her work is inspired by the environment that she grew up in on Cape Cod: the erosion and imprint left in the sand, formed by the ocean’s ebb and flow, emphasizing the ephemeral nature of her coastal home. She has been invested in ceramics since the young age of fourteen and today she is a studio potter, teacher of ceramics, and studio manager at Arch Contemporary Ceramics. She is a co-founder of “The Common: Workshop & Gallery” located at Hatch Street Studios.
Shannon Gallagher
Instagram: 5xceramics
“All children are born artists, the problem is remaining one when we grow up” -Picasso
Shannon Gallagher earned her BFA in ceramics at Massachusetts College of Art. After a 20 year hiatus she enrolled in Sue Wadoski’s class at The Meetinghouse Clay Center.
Shannon now teaches adult and children’s classes at The Meetinghouse. The MCC has become an integral part of her life.
Shannon’s pieces are primarily wheel thrown pots embellished with drawings and patterning. Shannon’s analog style preserves the hand of the maker assuring that each piece is one of a kind.
Alexa Nickandros
Alexa has a BS in Cognitive Science from UMass Amherst but has always had a drive towards practicing
art and sharing its joys with others. She has been working with clay regularly for 4 years and is building her own pottery business – Little House Ceramics – based in West Yarmouth. Alexa enjoys bringing whimsy into her work and draws inspiration from nature and elements of design. Other than pottery she loves playing her saxophone, plants, her cat, plants, DIY projects, and plants.
Ryder Gordon
Instagram: @ceramicsryder
Ryder grew up in the Boston area, where he was introduced to the potter’s wheel
at a young age. He graduated with a degree in art education and ceramics from UMass
Dartmouth. He has studied wood, gas, and soda firing with Chris Gustin and Chris
Smith, as well as raku with Stephen Branfman. Ryder has instructed and assisted at
The Potter’s Shop and School in Needham, Peter’s Valley School of Craft in Layton, NJ,
and Castle Hill Center for the Arts in Truro. Ryder’s work is defined by pushing the limits
of what can be accomplished both on and off the potter’s wheel. He creates functional
pottery with shapes that bulge, grow, and swirl as well as coil-built vessels where he
investigates the relationship between geometry and figurative elements. Ryder uses
glaze and atmospheric firing to highlight his complex forms, creating dynamic surfaces.