Carol Martens Carol is an accomplished ceramic artist. She is the founder of IOKA Pottery and received her BFA in ceramics from Alfred University in New York. She has exhibited her pottery locally and internationally. Her experience in art, pottery, and teaching spans thirty years. Carol teaches our Tuesday evening Ceramics: Wheel-Throwing class. Garrett Stryker Garrett has a Bachelor of Arts degree in studio art with a ceramics emphasis from CSU Fullerton. He has been involved in teaching and volunteering at the Fine Arts Center since 1992. He maintains his own private ceramics studio and sells his work through galleries and art shows. Garrett is conscientious about continuing education in the ceramics field and has also conducted seminars for various organizations. His class offerings include Ceramics: Wheel-Throwing on Monday evenings, and Beginning/Intermediate Pottery, a special four hour per session pottery class on Thursday mornings. Jane Nishii Jane is one of our long-time (over twenty years!) ceramics instructors. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in ceramics and has traveled extensively studying pottery styles in Mexico and Japan, as well as Native American pottery. She is a member of the Japanese Ceramics Guild and has exhibited her work widely. Jane teaches our Ceramic Art classes and emphasizes wheel, table, and glaze techniques. Julia Klemek Julia is another of our long-time instructors with well over twenty years teaching in our studio, at UCI, and at Orange Coast College. She has a Master of Fine Arts from UCI and exhibits widely. Her public art projects are in several California locations. Her most recent installations are here in Irvine and also in Long Beach. Julia teaches Ceramics Plus!, a class which also includes practice with a live model, sculptural forms, and a pit firing at the beach. Kaoru Kaplan Kaoru provides ceramics instruction in English and in Japanese as needed. Her background includes educational experience in Tokyo, Japan, Melbourne, Australia, Boston, MA and Manchester, NH. Her exhibition record also spans the globe. Japanese Inspired Ceramics is a course created by Kaoru where students can learn wheel-throwing and hand-building of objects as well as final glazing. Lynn Forbes Lynn is an accomplished sculptor. She has studied extensively the work of the great masters and focuses on the anatomy of the human figure. She is passionate about classical sculpture and is an enthusiastic instructor of Portrait Sculpture here at IFAC. She has taught many workshops at Saddleback College, local galleries, her own studio, and in Beverly Hills. Previously, she was a costume designer for twenty years. Visit www.lynnforbessculpture.com for more info.   Scott Jennings Scott has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from CSU Fullerton. He has been developing his own style of ceramic artwork for over ten years. He is also the ceramics technician at Mt. San Antonio College, and a former ceramics technician here at the IFAC ceramics studio. Scott teaches Pottery: Wheel-Throwing and Hand Building, a class that includes a variety of techniques designed to help you build dexterity and gain an aesthetic understanding of ceramics. Wayne Nayematsu Wayne graduated from the University of Montana and had the pleasure of studying under Rudy Autio. Wayne specializes in functional wheel-thrown pottery and teaches our Porcelain Clay class. His class creates soap dishes and dispensers, casseroles, pie plates, and more. Glazing is included in Wayne’s instruction. Susie Munger, Lead Ceramics Technician Susie is the lead technician and has over twenty-five years of ceramics studio experience. She has been our ceramics studio technician for over ten years and keeps current on all techniques and trends pertaining to the ceramics area. Susie is a very friendly and creative individual and is continuously seeking ways to improve and enhance the ceramics area. She has a Master of Fine Arts in ceramics from CSU Fullerton and can answer just about any question pertaining to ceramics production. Susie is also a key member of the annual Studio Arts Festival committee. Lynn King, Ceramics Technician Lynn is a ceramics artist who has come to us from the medical field. She is enthusiastic about ceramic art and sculpture and enjoys experimenting with various clays and glazes. Her artwork is evidence of her passion, which has earned her exhibition space in local galleries. Lynn diligently works with Susie to keep the ceramics studio clean and well maintained. She helps to load and unload all five main kilns, which run continuously. Lynn has also participated in several of our ceramics and sculpture classes, which give her the added advantage of understanding our class structure from the participant’s perspective.