Pottery Staff

• Katherine Antis graduated from Virginia Tech, studying under David Crane, in 2003. Following her graduation she moved to Appomattox, VA where she was a resident at Cub Creek Foundation until November 2004. Appomattox is where she settled in and is currently working and teaching in her studio. She is a functional potter who enjoys altering forms, handbuilding and playing with layers of stamping and sliptrailing. View Katherine's Website

• May Carter is the Pottery Studio Director and serves as a pottery instructor. She has been a potter for over 35 years, has studied with Robert Eckels at Stratford College, at the Penland School, and received a BFA in Ceramics and Painting from East Carolina University.

• Donna Headley studied pottery many years at the Fine Arts Center and more recently kiln fired glass under Lib Elder. She has served as Academy Pottery Studio Manager, becoming in the process a kiln "guru". She also teaches in our program, and has studied at the Odyssey Center.

• Jill Campbell is an accomplished potter, has taught for New Hoizons, the summer enrichment program for Amherst county schools, and earned an associates degree in Art from CVCC. She has concentrated on teaching elementary aged children at the Academy.

• Lib Elder received a degree in Art from the University of Colorado, has studied warm glass in intensive workshops at Arrowmont, and is now a full time artist/craftsman working in cold and warm glass as well as other mediums. View Lib's Website.

• Dave Emmert maintains his pottery studio and wood kiln in Amherst County. He graduated from Thiel College B.A. Art, has a BFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and teaches at Amherst County High School.

• Jane Garrett attended as an art student at Lynchburg College and RMWC. She has worked at Spun Earth Pottery, and has recently had her tiles published in Five Hundred Tiles by Lark Books.

• Jill Jensen is a professional artist who has focused on handpainted art quilts, printmaking and painting. Ms. Jensen has been a VCA "artist-in-residence" many times throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia and is the former exhibitions curator at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lynchburg, Virginia. She holds degrees from the College of William and Mary and Columbia University. View Jill's Website

• Barbara Lane is a master handbuilder in clay, has taught at the League of new Hampshire Craftsman, is a juried member of the Washington, D. C. Kiln Club. She teaches and maintains a gallery at her Earthstar Studio in North Hartland Vermont.

• Liz McCormack is a self taught and accomplished silversmith for over 20 years, and the owner/craftsman of "Just Liz" Jewelry Shop. View Liz's Website

• Ariel Uniss Parker has a BFA in Metals and Jewelry from Savannah School of Art and Design. She has worked for over 8 years as a professional jeweler, and maintains her own jewelry and art gallery, the Studio Gallery at the City Market. View Ariel's Website

• Priscilla Palmer attended Maryland Institute College of Art studying painting, received a B.S. in Art Education from Rhode Island College and was a founding partner in Emerson Creek Pottery.

• Kim Stiffler served as an apprentice to Texas silversmith and jewelry designer Deborah Alcala, who runs a private studio in the Dallas area. In college she took studio art courses in photography and fresco/mosaic design, receiving her B.A. in Art History from R-MWC and an M.A. in the same subject at the University of Bristol, England. Her jewelry is currently on display at the Beeswax Candle Co. and the Academy of Fine Arts in downtown Lynchburg as well as Portobello Road in Forest.