Upcoming Pottery Workshops and Classes:

Audry is currently an adjunct ceramics professor at Belmont University's Watkins College of Art.

She also teaches mixed-level clay classes through Belmont's Watkins Community Education Program.

May 21st - 22nd, 2022 Audry will be teaching a clay surface design workshop at the Clay School of Ithaca (NY).

June 19th - 24th, 2022 Audry will be teaching a week-long "Pottery Boot Camp" workshop (for beginners and intermediate students) at the Appalachian Center for Craft (Smithville, TN).

Nov. 6-12th of 2022 Audry will be teaching a week-long workshop titled "Playing with Pattern:  Creating ornate surface designs on clay" at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Gatlinburg, TN).

Experience:

Audry has taught ceramics and photography to a wide range students since 2007.  She has worked as an adjunct professor of ceramics at Middle Tennessee State University and Belmont University, along with being a visiting artist at Cumberland University.  Audry has taught workshops at venues as diverse as the University of Alaska (Southeast campus), the Appalachian Center for Craft (Smithville, TN), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Gatlinburg, TN), and the Frist Art Museum (Nashville, TN).  She was also a faculty member at Ensworth High School for 5 years where she taught advanced pottery classes and ran the photography program.

Audry is a strong supporter of community art education programs.  She has taught at Vanderbilt University's Sarratt Art Studios, Belmont University's Watkins College of Art Community Education Program, Cheekwood's Frist Learning Center, and Old School Farm's Pottery Program in Nashville, TN.

Specialties:

In in the field of ceramics, Audry can teach a wide range of hand-building and wheel-throwing processes.  She has experience running clay studios, mixing/formulating different types of glazes, and building/firing different types of kilns.

Audry also teaches both digital and darkroom photographic processes.  In addition to teaching with DSLRs and the Adobe Suite, she has run two educational darkrooms where she took great joy in teaching black and white film and printing techniques in tandem with photographic art history.  Audry also enjoys incorporating alternative processes and experimental cameras into her classes.

"Since good art doesn’t happen in a bubble, research is a central theme to my educational philosophy.  Projects and techniques are framed within the greater context of the historical and contemporary art world, which helps students quickly learn to push past the obvious solutions.  They develop a respect for the time and energy that goes into the creative process while simultaneously flexing their own creative muscles and finding their voice as an artist.  Through taking photos or working with clay, they are also learning the creative problem solving skills that are essential in our contemporary society."