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Our Team
Claire Lenahan (they/she)
Studio Asst. Lead | Kiln Technician | InstructorClaire Lenahan oversees the day-to-day operations of the studio. She 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.
You can see more of her work on her website or on Instagram.
Materials Specialist | Instructor | Studio AssistantMeghan Marvin (she/they)
Meghan is our Lead Instructor, and teaches several wheel throwing and hand building classes a week! Meghan is from Jacksonville, Florida, and received her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Florida in 2007.
She makes beautiful pots and incredible figure sculpture, and you can often find her enthusiastically sharing her deep knowledge for clay with anyone in the studio.
You can also join Meghan for wheel-throwing or hand-building classes throughout the year.
Jack Manfredi (he/him)
Studio Manager | InstructorJack Manfredi is a Gainesville, Florida local who found his passion for clay in Sara’s class at Gainesville High School! He started volunteering at the studio when he was 15, and became Sara’s apprentice and the studio’s first employee at 19! His enthusiasm for functional pots and the ins and outs of clay are limitless.
In 2021 Jack and Sara were awarded the Studio Potter Apprenticeship Grant, which supported Jack financially for a year as Sara’s apprentice. Jack is the youngest recipient to ever receive the grant. He completed a second year apprenticeship before continuing as her assistant, and now Studio Assistant lead. Check out his work on Instagram at @jacks_pots.
Lead InstructorSofia Zavarse (she/they)
Sofia Zavarse is one of our new material specialist, and is also another Gainesville local. Sofia began taking classes at Studio T/M, and it was no time at all before she joined our team.
Sofia teaches Introduction to Wheel and Wheel 2 courses, as well as our Spanish Immersion Throwing course.
She dedicates her time to creating functional pottery with a concentration on dynamic, fluid surfaces. You can find her at local makers markets around town from fall through spring seasons.
To view more of her work, check out her Instagram at @cricketclayworks.
Admin & Studio AssistantStudio Apprentice and Assistant | InstructorJackson Domenico (he/his)
Jackson is a recent graduate of the University of Florida where he earned his BFA and certificate in ceramics.
He works interdisciplinarily in fiber arts, ceramics, and painting and has exhibited work in his home state of Florida, as well as in Maryland, Colorado, Mississippi, and North Carolina, most recently being awarded “Best in Show” at the National Juried Exhibition in Oxford, MS.
His work revolves around themes of queerness, community, craft, memory, and environmental ecology in the face of the Anthropocene. IG: @jackson_domenico.
Fi Simler (she/her)
Marketing & Community Coordinator | Studio AssistantFi spearheads all of our print and online marketing efforts. She also supports our studio with studio programming, event coordination, and partnership outreach.
She is a Peruvian-born, US-raised multimedia artist who explores cultural displacement, diasporic grief, and the reclamation of home. Her artmaking is an effort to reconcile the joy and ache of being from two worlds, and the power of creating from that in-between space.
You can find her on Instagram at @fisimlerart.
Studio Resident and Assistant | Instructor
Cing Huai (she/her)
Anthony Madorsky (he/him)
Admin & Studio AssistantV began working with clay in seventh grade and has been making pottery ever since. She primarily works on the potter's wheel, creating functional ceramics for the home alongside small handheld trinkets that celebrate the joy of everyday objects.
For V, ceramics is both a creative outlet and a way to slow down, focus, and clear her mind. She hopes to study both ceramics and criminology in college, continuing to grow as both an artist and professional.