About the Mudroom Pottery Studio

In spite of her majestic career in the field of pottery, Lindsey actually started out as a painting major at the Maine College of Art where she received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Degree in 1996.  When she discovered clay in college, Lindsey knew she had found her artistic home. She loves being connected to a craft that has been done for thousands of years, that is both artistically pure and purposefully functional. She found that she really liked the idea that something she made inhabits people’s space and that the people who embrace her pottery invest a personal relationship with the objects. In a way, Lindsey’s pots are a living entity that breath and grow with each person who claims one. 

In 1999, while searching for her first steps within a pottery career, she chanced upon an experience that would change her life. At the time, she was living in Rhode Island, newly married and seeking a fresh opportunity to learn and enhance her craft. During her search, she stumbled upon the work of Steven Branfman, a well-known contributor to the pottery world, most famous perhaps for his raku work, a Japanese style of pottery that lends a rustic, crackled look to its pots. She worked with and learned from Branfman, at The Potter Shop and School in Needham, Massachusetts for a year before her husband was relocated to her home state of Maine. 

Once resettled in Maine, Lindsey created and maintained her own freelance studio, The Mudroom Pottery Studio. After having her son in 2002, she started working as a pottery instructor for the Fiddlehead Center for the Arts in Gray. Eventually, she became the head of the ceramics department, teaching pottery classes to both children and adults while managing the other instructors and volunteers within the Fiddlehead program. After five years growing and expanding with Fiddlehead, Lindsey decided that it was time to return to her roots and pursue her life-long dream of opening her own full-time pottery studio. 

The doors of The Mudroom Pottery Studio opened to the general public in 2009. Lindsey teaches private lessons to children and adults of all ages. In addition to her private and group lessons, Lindsey conducts outreach to the community by teaching lessons with Lewiston Adult Education, The Boys and Girls Club, and the YWCA. Lindsey also serves on the board of directors for The Literacy Volunteers of Androscoggin County and donates her art for various fundraising events meant to raise money and awareness around the growing need for literacy skills in her local community, and she engages with her son’s school volunteering and demonstrating pottery workshops on a regular basis. 

Content by: Araminta Mathews