Our art instructors

​Antoinette Badenhorst was our first online teacher. She started with the understanding porcelain e-course, and followed that up with the porcelain handbuilding online class. Her online students requested her to show them how to make dinnerware, and she presented wheel thrown porcelain dinnerware. Potters who do not work with wheel throwing requested Antoinette to teach them how to hand build a porcelain dinner set with porcelain, also called chinaware. The handbuilding porcelain dinnerware online course was recorded and Antoinette shares her own templates with students. She showed students how to make teapots with pinching teapots for beginners, and wheel thrown teapots. In glazing made easy, Antoinette demonstrates how to work with and understand pottery glazes. Pottery for beginners is her latest online class where she guides potters through all the processes to become a successful potter.

David Voorhees from North Carolina was our second professional artist who joined TeachinArt. With 40 years of experience in the arts, he takes potters on an exciting trip with porcelain tips for wheel pottery and demonstrates how to throw with porcelain clay. Decorating techniques and many tips and techniques are included in this class with David.

Marcia Selsor with her professional experience of 50 years in the arts and crafts was the third art instructor in our online school. Many potters know her as the Raku lady. She presented hands-on workshops and did residencies in many different countries. In alternative firing, she explains the processes of raku, obvara and saggar firings and demonstrates to her online art students how to make an affordable, portable gas kiln that can be used for all the firing techniques included in the e-course.

Connie Christensen joined TeachinArt with her 26 years experience as potter and as our fourth online instructor. She teaches potters how to throw a complete faceted teapot set using porcelain clay and shows how to make a serving tray for the teapot collector. Connie demonstrates in detail how to make cane handles that fit the teapot design, but the skills that potters learn from her can be used to make all kinds of cane handles for different dinnerware items. She is often called "the shino queen", and she presented shino glazing as her second online class. This class is loaded with tips and techniques for those who are interested in firing with gas kilns.

Nan Rothwell is a full time functional potter who started her pottery career in England, but has now her own studio in Virginia. She brings a unique perspective to throwing functional work. Nan has an ongoing experience in teaching ceramic artists since 1973 when she returned to the USA. Ceramic Arts Daily published some of her teaching videos. Nan decided to join TeachinArt with her online e-course, take throwing to the next level. She shows how to throw and wire pottery lamps. Some of the interesting projects that students will do during the class includes different styles of wiggle-wire decorations.

Lynn Barnwell is the owner of Hinkle Creek Pottery in Corinth, Mississippi and  a functional potter for 20 years. Notable government as well corporate and sports officials presented her work as gifts to their clients.
She assisted Antoinette Badenhorst with the glazing made easy e-course and presented the commercial glazes as part of this online workshop.

Marie Gibbons has over 20 years of ceramics experience and started 18 years ago using acrylic paints as her preferred decorating clay technique. She is involved with many school art projects and presents regular painting on clay projects in her EVB Studio in Denver, Colorado.

In her online class, post-fired finishes, Marie uses acrylics  to address unique cold finishing techniques and allows students to express themselves on a broader level.

Paul Lewing is a professional ceramic artist and painter with over 40 years of experience. He presented hands-on workshops in each of the 50 states of the USA and is the author of the book "China Paint & Overglaze". Paul's work is in several permanent collections.

In his china painting e-course, he demonstrates many painting techniques and challenges his art students to take what they learned from him to the next level. In this class, students will see why he was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Montana.

Curtis Benzle is internationally recognized for his fine, translucent porcelain vessels. His work is collected from the white house to far away international museums. Curt made a name as an artist with his signature work, but was also the driving force behind a successful production ceramic factory. He further showed his leadership skills on art and craft boards and councils.
Teaching is another strong point of Curt and he shares a "ton of information" with students in his colored clay online class.
His next online workshop, All Artists Make A Living (AAMAL) will be the next e-course for Curt.

Robert (Bob) Rundquist started in the wood industry in 1980 as a builder. Building houses turned into building kitchen cabinets and making handmade exclusive furniture. Bob's curious and exploring personality took his interest into wooden art pieces and fine art wood segmenting. Most of the things he is doing, he taught himself.

Introduction to segmenting is his first online workshop, but he is already getting ready to present an introduction to wood work.