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Meet the Team

The faces of Mud on Main - get to know more about your instructor before your class or event. We hold our employees to high standards of customer service and instruction methods, check them out!

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Wheel Instructor

Maggie Sampson

Maggie, our full-time Mud on Main employee, spends her time with us leading wheel throwing and hand-building classes as well as support for open studio hours! While off the clock,  Maggie is often making beautiful (and bubbly) ceramics of her own, which are available for purchase in studio!

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Wheel Instructor

Pat Patterson

Pat works part-time teaching adult wheel throwing and part-time making some super cool 3-D printed items available at both Mud on Main and Fire Escape, our Oregon St location! Pat has many years of experience in ceramics and will help you create a piece you love, while also entertaining groups with his sense of humor.

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    Hand Building Instructor

    LeAnn Stinemates

    LeAnn teaches hand-building and sculptural classes at Mud on Main including: Clay Camps, seasonal classes, and sometimes dabbling in the wheel. LeAnn is currently a student at UWO for Art Education and a practicing artist herself.  See her work in our vendor area at the front of the studio!

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    Manager

    Eli Retzlaff

    Eli helps manage the studio, running classes and offer support during open wheels and hand building hours. She knows all the juicy details about our new and upcoming events! Eli spends her time split between Fire Escape and Mud on Main as a full-time employee, so you will likely see her around, say Hi!

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    Wheel Instructor

    Craig Clifford

    Craig works as a ceramicist and a Ceramics professor at UWO, so he teaches classes with us  over summer and winter break! Craig teaches beginner and advanced wheel throwing classes, so he can offer guidance for all levels of experience and help you create something new!

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    Hand Building Instructor

    Cydney Foster

    Cydney is our newest addition to Mud on Main, as she usually works at our Fire Escape location. There, Cydney specializes in mosaic and mandala classes; her interests have expanded to hand building camps and classes here at the mud room as well!

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    Couple's Wheel Instructor

    Rachael Thompson

    Rachael's electric personality will make any and all of the couple's wheel throwing classes a blast at Mud on Main. These classes are offered monthly as Rachael is busy working as an artist and art therapist when she's not in the studio!

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    Kid's Wheel Instructor

    Kristina Donaubauer

    Kristina works full-time at Fire Escape on Oregon, but you might see her at this location teaching kids camps, kids wheel throwing, or sensory classes. Kristina also makes for a very fun and engaging host for birthday parties!

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    Wheel Instructor

    Morgn Jones

    Morgn, one of our seasonal employees, works with us as a wheel instructor during the school year as she attends UWO for Studio Art. Morgn is a practicing artist primarily focused on ceramics, glass, and painting!

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    Owner

    Rebecca Graf

    Rebecca opened the Mud on Main location when she expanded and dived Fire Escape. She taught the first ever wheel class Fire Escape offered! You might find her at Mud on Main helping a birthday party or working the farmer's market, stop by!

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    TAKE A CLASS

    Sign up for a class with any of these instructors and you are sure to be happy with your choice!

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