Maria Dondero

Maria Dondero received her MFA in Ceramics in 2008 from the University of Georgia. She has taught at Universities throughout the South East and for the Cortona, Italy program for UGA. In 2016, she opened Southern Star Studio, a Ceramics Studio Collective in Athens, GA where she rents out space, hosts community classes & events and has a gallery of work by local Artists. In 2022, she co founded Tuscan Clay Lab, a community pottery studio in Cortona Italy where she teaches and takes private groups to study the history of Italian Ceramics and make pots.