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Jada Crellin Ahern BFA

jadasclay.com jadasclay@hotmail.com (520)

870-0823

Jada is a native Tucsonan, educated in Studio Art at the University of Arizona. She has been teaching clay full-time for over 15 years and specializes with beginners in sculpture, throwing on the potter's wheel, hand building and firing kilns. She facilitates advanced artists by consulting on construction and firing for them. Many students have gone from never touching clay to showing and selling in local and national galleries. Several have gone on to teach clay. At minimum her students are motivated to have great fun figuring out clay.

Jada is an advocate for seniors and has a lifetime of experience fostering safe and constructive environments for senior and adult learners. A self-starter who thinks effectively inside the box, she also generates creatively outside the box. She is always eager to learn new things and constantly updates her job skills looking for the next creative opportunity that will propel her and her student's artistic expression.

Jada has presented at national and international artists conferences. She has collaborated with artists and art instructors of all levels and taken advanced level clay workshops in the United States and Ireland. Jada is a juried member and past-President of the Southern Arizona Clay Artists and has also exhibited work in by-invitation juried shows, art shows and craft fairs.