Meet the ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

Steph Kubish is a graduate from Endicott College with a BFA in Studio Art who has delved into the world of ceramics, which has captured her heart. She has completed residencies at the University of Hartford, Access Arts and served as the studio technician at Wesleyan Potters. She is a detail-oriented artist who finds inspiration in the human figure, faces, and animals. These subjects have a magnetic pull on her creative process and are a recurring theme in her pottery and sculpture. 

https://snkubish.wixsite.com/artbystephk

Sophie Lever is a ceramic artist who creates both functional and sculptural work. Fascinated with pattern,  geometry, and organization, her functional and sculptural work contains these elements through surface  decoration and form. Sophie recently completed a residency at Access Arts in Columbia, MO. Before Access  Arts, she was a resident at Brockway Center for Arts. Over the past two years, her work has been exhibited in  juried exhibitions across the country. She received her BA in Studio Arts from the University of Rochester in  2023.

https://www.sophie-lever.com/

Edward Steffanni received his Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. In Edward’s interdisciplinary practice, he examines the relationships between queerness, concealment, nature,  and spirituality using print media, ceramics, papermaking, and performance. His work has been exhibited  nationally and has received numerous awards, and has been supported through research grants from the  Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and the Rhode Island School of Design’s SPUR Fund. He is a part of the  2025 New Voices cohort for the Print Center New York. His work is held in the collection of the University of  Richmond Museums, among others.

https://www.edwardsteffanni.com/

JANA SILVER holds a Doctorate in Teacher Education and a Master of Fine Arts in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has studied ceramics in West Africa through Parsons School of Design and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art Education from SUNY, New Paltz. Her ceramic art has been sold and exhibited nationwide. She has taught at Hampshire College for many years before joining the Art Education faculty at Boston University in the fall of 2021. In the fall of 2024, she deepened my clay practice by accepting an artist-in-residence position at the Worcester Center for Crafts, where she will begin a second year of residency.

https://janals.wixsite.com/janasilyverart