Malley Weber is the owner and operator of Kennebec Clay Works. She’s been teaching ceramics to people of all ages for 25+ years! She’s passionate about using local glacial marine clay in her artwork and becoming a better teacher/artist/human. She spends a good deal of time with a Himalayan Mystic, Swami Gupta, practicing Kriya Yoga. Breathing helps everything!

www.malleyweber.com for clay work

www.HimalayanMystic.org for spiritual work

Emily Baker is a consummate educational professional with a bit of a wild streak. She has extra special super kid skills and can share some amazing projects.. She’s been working with Malley for years now and has got it down! Ever brilliant, ever fun and energetic you will love clay and you will love her.

Misha is an artist-scientist who makes functional and sculptural ceramics. Their work is inspired by marine biology, neuroscience, design engineering and data visualization. You can often find them getting covered in mud while throwing on the wheel, sculpting little chess pieces or huffing and puffing while wedging pigments into clay. You can see more of their work at mishaoraaali.com

Marie Charest never dreamed that she'd be teaching clay workshops and classes. After a full career in mortgage lending and compliance, she fell in love with clay. It all started from a one-day-wheel workshop with friends. Marie is a life-long learner and understands how important it is to live life to the fullest. She's been trying new things everyday and is excited to help you succeed on your journey with clay. When she's not working in her studio she's tempting friends with an amazing array of baked goods and sharing the latest greatest pottery tool!

Mike Johnson is one of those guys who quietly works behind the scenes fixing everything. He tears into each project like a mad scientist until he figures it all out. He is a natural mechanical genius and he's also an amazing teacher. He can be found under tractors, hoods of cars, kilns, and furnaces. He likes to hang out in barns and knows a whole lot about everything and proves it daily.

Hope is one of those creative dynamos and we feel pretty lucky to have her with us here at HCW. Not only is she an amazing ceramic artist and instructor, she’s a printmaker and runs Little Chair Printing in Portland, Maine. She’s brings great vitality plus knowledge of materials and process and creates an easy fun atmosphere for students to build skills. *Hope is opening her own space in Portland, but we’ll be sharing and sending folks her way! She’s awesome!

She’s small, but mighty! Meg comes to us by way of Tennessee and Mighty Mud Studios. She knows her way around the clay studio has mad skills with computers, carpentry and she loves teaching. If you received an email there’s a 99% chance it came from Meg. She wears many hats and we are very grateful to have her on our team. She’s the oil in the machine. Be nice to her. We want to keep her. *Meg took one of those so called ‘real jobs’, but we know she’ll come back!