Subject: Meet the new 2025-2026 Residents!

2025-26
Artists-In-Residence
CERAMIC ARTISTS │GLASS ARTISTS

We are pleased to welcome a new group of artists to our studios!

Ceramics Artists-In-Residents

Sara Alfieri

Sara Alfieri is a design-driven ceramic artist originally from Rochester, New York. Alfieri’s work investigates the layered relationship between design, function, and accessibility through digitally designed, slip-casted ceramic vessels and architecturally-inspired sculptures. The motifs of her forms and surfaces, along with the methods of constructing them, are inspired by modern architecture, design theory, and shape psychology.

Take Introduction to Wheel Throwing with Alfieri on Saturdays in October!

Erin Drake

Erin Drake was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. Her work predominantly focuses on the combining of stones, fruit, flower buds and small foliage into invented environments, then hides insects or other invented animals to mimic the plants in the work. These interests have coalesced into a sculptural ceramic practice with a focus on the creation of an invented world.

Take Wheel Throwing Two with Drake on Mondays in October!

Hunter Guidoboni

Hunter Guidoboni is a mixed-media sculptor whose work investigates how men form relationships with one another to navigate their place within the gender hierarchy. His sculptures reflect a critical examination of boyhood, authority, and homosocial dynamics, often using form and material to draw out the tension between vulnerability and power.

See Guidoboni in action during November's First Friday Live Clay Demo!

Zoey McLeod

Led by the wonder of the lineage of craft, Zoey McLeod has long adored handmade objects. Growing up in her grandfather’s glass shop, she has been exposed to the intimate connection between maker, object, and user for her whole life. Her work is largely inspired by the ability to create objects in collaboration with natural materials to use as mementos of memory and to adorn the home.

Take Introduction to Handbuilding with McLeod this October!

Hannah Schelb

Hannah Schelb started working in ceramics in 2009 while attending Augusta State University. Schelb’s work spans from functional to sculptural figurative work. During her time at Belger, she has branched into stylized figurative work that observes and reflects "the dynamics of self", referencing her own life experiences. Schelb was a 2024-25 resident and is returning for her second term.

Take Introduction to Wheel Throwing with Schelb on Tuesdays in October!

Warren VanRyzin

Warren Van Ryzin is from Chicago and received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. The combination of contemporary internet culture with indigenous ceramic history is a direct reflection of his cultural identity. He describes his work as a “practical tool to talk about issues of indigenous cultural assimilation and identity in our present time in both digital and physical spaces.” Van Ryzin was a 2024-25 resident and is returning for his second term.

Glass Artists-In-Residents

Michael Carson

Born and raised in Indiana, it wasn’t until 2021 that Michael Carson started working with glass at Ball State University. Switching his main area of study from construction to the arts, Carson concentrated on functional work with the occasional sculptural twist. He looks to challenge how people view and use functional blown glass that is neglected due to its fragility or lack of practical use.

Take Carson's Special Topic Class, Just Roll with It, this November!

Tyler Suter

Tyler Suter is a St. Louis-based studio artist who, since an early age, has had a profound love for the natural world. Working primarily with glass, his current body of work explores the repetition of form and pattern that can be found throughout nature, from micro to macroscopic. Developing this body of work involves exploring various glassworking techniques and incorporating ceramic components.

See Suter in action during our First Friday Glassblowing Demos!

For information about all Belger Arts programs, including our ceramics and glass residency programs, please visit BelgerArts.org.

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Subject: Meet the new 2025-2026 Residents!

2025-26Artists-In-ResidenceCERAMIC ARTISTS │GLASS ARTISTS

We are pleased to welcome a new group of artists to our studios!

2025-26
Artists-In-Residence
CERAMIC ARTISTS │GLASS ARTISTS