Ceramic Workshop of Riverbay

The artisans of the Ceramic Workshop of Riverbay practice their craft at many levels. Wedging and molding, sculpting and rolling, firing and glazing, slabs, wheel, poured perfections culminate into a physical representation of an emotional vision. All in all art is created and souls are nurtured.

Members of the collective:

"My favorite saying to my students is `Be one with the Clay'?" - Noa Cruz, President of the Ceramic Workshop of Riverbay

"As a graduate of Fine Arts, I've taught various techniques at community centers throughout the tri-state area. My surrealist style in art is also showing at the Ward Nesses Gallery in down town SoHo of Manhattan". - Wayne Palesado

"Having worked professionally in film and theatre for about 11 years, I decided that I would like to create work that is more expressive - that says something about who I am and what I love. My subject of choice is natural history with an added element of fantasy, looking into the past and exploring the "what ifs"". - Curtis Simmons

"Mounds of earth and water shape into the moments I long never to forget." - Gail Rose Sharbaan, Author of Tales from the Street.

"The art of pottery gives life to right side brain work?and makes me whole". - Michelle M.

"I learned that working with clay, I should be prepared for anything." - Evelyn Bruton

"I work with clay because it affords me the opportunity to create a world anyway I wish it to be?" - Yvonne Carter

"Bronxite looking for an outlet for her creative energy has found true happiness?" - Denise Shelley.

"I feel as if I am constructing many windows that open out to a world of differing beliefs and realizations that somehow parallel each other." - Genise Amorim

"Working with clay makes me feel powerful and creative and commanding." - Fidel Palacio