Let us introduce ourselves…
Naomi, Henry, Sara and Hazel
September 2023
Sara Truman Naomi Mostkoff
owners
Sara and Naomi started Studio T/M in January of 2016 as their personal studio space. Over the years the studio grew, and they began taking on studio assistants and teaching classes. In the summer of 2020, Sara left her full-time teaching position at Gainesville High School to run the studio full-time. In July of 2023 the new home of Studio T/M opened just a mile and half from the original 1,000 sq. ft. studio. You can see Sara’s work at saratruman.com or follow her on Instagram @sbtruman!
Rosie with some of her sculptures, 2021.
CR and her service dog, Keywee, 2020
Claire with her thesis work, 2021
Meghan Marvin enjoying a cup of coffee on our porch.
Jenn @ Studio T/M, 2022.
Erin Curry, Instructor
Rosie Bishop
Studio Manager
Rosie Bishop is a ceramic artist born and raised here in Gainesville, FL. Rosie was introduced to clay through Sara Truman’s ceramic class at Gainesville High School. After graduating, she studied ceramic arts at Alfred University. Now, back in Gainesville, she’s working with us doing managerial studio work, as well as teaching classes! Rosie makes large scale sculptures, and is currently working on transferring images onto utilitarian ware.
Check out her work on her Instagram @rosiebishopceramics!
CR Dean
Admin
CR Dean is a transplanted California sunflower pursuing her doctorate in English literature at the University of Florida, who took a ceramics class to de-stress but fell in love with the craft… and now spends all her time (spare or not) at the studio. She supports the managerial work of the studio, and aides with classes and events.
Check out her work and her service dog on her Instagram @thepettibear
Claire Lenahan
Materials specialist/Instructor
Claire Lenahan is an artist who works in a variety of mediums, currently focusing on interactive installations of pottery. Her work subtly disorients the viewer by queering western domestic conventional objects through failure, the performance of our daily actions, queer phenomenology, and social engagement. She received her MFA in Studio Art (Ceramics) at the University of Florida.
Claire teaches our Saturday classes both Introduction to Wheel Throwing and Intermediate/Independent Study Wheel. You can see more of her work on her website https://www.clairelenahanart.com.
Meghan Marvin
Lead Instructor
Meghan is a ceramic artist from Jacksonville, Florida. She received her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Florida in 2007. She makes beautiful pots and incredible figure sculpture.
Meghan is our Lead Instructor, and teaches several wheel throwing and hand building classes a week!
Jennifer Hartz
Instructor
Jennifer Hartz is a ceramic artist from Cleveland, Ohio. Jenn took her first wheel throwing classes during the mid-1990s through the Cleveland Institute of Art Continuing Education Program. Jenn continued developing her innovative approach to ceramics as a member of the Brick Ceramic + Design Studio in Cleveland’s Waterloo Arts District. Jenn has had a long career teaching elementary and middle school science with a creative flare. While working at Hawken School she was exposed to Maker Education and learned to use many of the machines in the school maker space, including her favorite, the laser cutter. Jenn is interested in creating tools to use in the making of wheel thrown and hand built pieces. Her favorite tools to use in her own work include the laser-cut rolling pins she develops from hand drawn images.
Check out her work @jennhartzceramics
Erin Curry
Instructor
As an artist with a penchant for immersive spaces and tactile materials, I use several mediums to make artworks for your home, workplace, and the public. Tiny abstract comics through full installations emerge here as intimate, meditative experiences.