Don Fletcher, President of the Quakertown Studio Project, was a student of Toshiko Takaezu’s at Princeton University starting in 1969. He had been urged to take the class by a friend, the artist Meryl Friedman, and he kept attending and kept on making pottery after graduation. To support the pottery habit he turned to computer programming during the week and spent many years of enjoyable weekends gardening, cooking and working with clay at the studio. In keeping with Toshiko’s wishes, he lives at the house and has taken over operation and management of the studio.

Bill Baumbach, Vice-President, was also a student of Toshiko’s at Princeton, and served as her apprentice for a year after graduation. After his apprenticeship he took a PhD in biochemistry, also at Princeton and has worked in the pharmaceutical and medical technology world ever since. He has also been a very steadfast and competent part of the studio team ever since.

Maxwell Mustardo is a local ceramist, born & raised in nearby Pittstown. He has been the studio manager since 2021.

Find out more about him at www.Mustardom.com or on Instagram @maxwellmustardo