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About Us
Women owned, Forma was started by Jen Noetzli and Michelle Horovitz, both SW Mpls residents, with the intention of creating a community centered around the joy of learning from and playing with clay.
Forma Clay Owners
Jen + Teacher + Creative + Professional Potter
Jen has been teaching pottery since 2008 in the Twin Cities, and runs a successful acupuncture practice less than one mile from Forma. Jen has longed for her own studio, where she can continue learning, teaching and building community. Her enthusiastic and kind teaching style has ignited a pottery passion in so many people over the years.
Michelle + Hobby Potter + Social Entrepreneur
Michelle is a social entrepreneur and recovering public defender. She reconnected with her lost love of ceramics after a 20+ year hiatus, and has been taking Jen’s classes for many years. A lazy, hobbyist potter, Michelle was excited to join Jen in bringing this dream to reality in a beautiful space close to home.
Instructors
Ralph + Professional Potter + Teacher
Ralph Nuara is a professional potter, originally from Brooklyn, NY; has been potting for 20+ yrs, and teaching for 15. After working as a home furnishings designer & buyer, he travelled across the US studying ceramics in Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts, Maine and Illinois, then settled in Mpls. Ralph has continually explored the relationships between function, form and surface to keep his work fresh and practice in the studio challenging.