Muddie Buddies Instructors
Cindy Ericksen
Lucinda Ericksen, founder of White Buffalo Pottery, studied pottery at the University of Utah. She has had her own studio for about 15 years. During her travels abroad she fell in love with the old world pottery of Europe, especially the Italian hand-painted majolica. She has been teaching youth and adults pottery in her home studio for 10 years. She is excited for the new Muddie Buddies on 500 west in Bountiful, where she can expand her classes and share her passion for pottery.
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Scott Bradbury
Scott Bradbury, a lifelong Bountiful resident, graduated from the University of Utah in 1986 with a BFA emphasis on 3D and graduated from Weber State College with a secondary teaching certificate. He began teaching pottery in 1987 at Bingham Middle School. In 1992, he began teaching at Bountiful High School and taught there until 2018. In addition to pottery, Scott also enjoys bee keeping, wood working, metal working, jewelry making, glass working, welding,silk screen printing, and 3D printing.
Mary Anne Loveless
Mary Anne Loveless is a mixed media artist with a long history in polymer clay. For the last four years she has added ceramics to her credits, as she explores barrel firing, slip trailing, and majolica. Her polymer work has been featured in several publications, including Polymer Clay Daily, Polymer Arts Magazine, and Polymer World. She was a finalist for the International Polymer Cllay Association's Award in Malta in 2014. She is more than thrilled to be a part of Muddie Buddies!
Amy Hunter
Amy Hunter is the Studio Manager. She has lived in Bountiful since 2005, and is a mother of 5 amazing children. Her love for clay began while attending Timpview High School. After high school Amy attended UVSC (now UVU) she took a pottery class, but at the time Amy’s focus was film Photography. Years later after Amy was married and had two kids, she had the hankering to get back to work with clay. She signed up for a 4 week pottery class that turned into doing pottery at another studio in SLC for 6 years. When she was pregnant with her 4th baby, she took a break from pottery to focus on her family. That break was only supposed to be a few months, it turned into 11 years. When Muddie Buddies opened in Bountiful and her oldest daughter Helen started working at Muddie Buddies in 2019. Amy decided that It was time to get back to working with clay and she has been at Muddie Buddies ever since.
Shalise Bailey
Shalise Bailey taught pottery for 28 years at Layton High School. She is recently retired and is thrilled to have the opportunity to help teach classes at Muddie Buddies. In her years of teaching she has enjoyed helping others learn pottery techniques for wheel throwing and hand building. Her favorite part of teaching is working with students to help them make pottery be a unique expression of their own interests. She appreciates how pottery is the perfect metaphor for life. She has found Muddie Buddies to be a welcoming, supportive and creative environment. She looks forward to the collaborative work of teaching, sharing ideas and learning from all who come into the studio.
Tara Foster
Tara’s journey into the world of stained glass began with an internship at a local stained glass shop in Salt Lake City following her graduation in music performance from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2017. This hands-on internship allowed her to develop her skills not only in traditional stained glass but fused and leaded glass techniques. For the last 6 years, she has been invited annually to assist renowned artist Wesley Wong at the Glass Craft & Bead Expo in Las Vegas. During the expo, she helps teach fused glass techniques to students from across the country. Tara enjoys teaching Intro to stained glass course at Muddy Buddies and the Life Long Learning program at the University of Utah. Tara lives in Salt Lake City with her Husband and two dogs. In addition to her passion for stained glass, she finds joy in the great outdoors. Hiking and backpasking offer her a chance to recharge and connect with nature's beauty while checking off bucket list hikes such as Mt. Elbert, Ibapah Peak, King's Peak, Rim-to-Rim, and Half Dome. During the winter months, you will find her snowboarding at the local ski resorts.
Laura pearl
Laura Pearl has been doing pottery since 2017 when she studied Art Education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She and her Husband moved from Ohio to Utah in 2021 and have fallen in love with the Wasatch mountains and local pottery community. She is also the current Davis High Ceramics Teacher during the week. When not in a pottery studio Laura is found hiking or biking on the trails or in a local coffee shop. Muddie Buddies has been one of her favorite parts of living in Utah and she loves to share the local community of Ceramics.
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