Ms. Brandy is a graduate from Lewis & Clark Community College with an Associates Degree in Graphic Design, a graduate of Webster University with a Bachelors of Art, and she also attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville for some Post-Bach work learning the kilns under Paul Dresang. She started her teaching career through The Edwardsville Art Center. After 5 years of teaching for the EAC, she helped start up The MAC!

Find out more about Ms. Brandy and her clay work on her Facebook Page: Cloud Studios

Sarah Redhouse Walker

Ms. Sarah has been a friend of Ms. Brandy’s for years! She is an avid potter and painter! She has BFA in Painting from Plymouth State University in NH. With an un-official minor in ceramics. She is currently enrolled in the MFA program at SIUE. Ms. Sarah has taught Oil Painting, Drawing, and Ceramics classes at The MAC!

Tori Tilton (Share the Soap)

Tori started making soap in 2003 to use up extra goat milk on our farm. That was the first winter her hands didn't crack and bleed in many years! She attended a soapmaking course and then started formulating her own recipes. She started selling her soap (Higher Calling Soaps) under their farm name, Higher Calling Farm. They sold mostly word-of-mouth but people could also find them in Green Earth Grocery in Edwardsville

In 2016 they started Share the Soap, a family farm business that makes soap & skin-care products & teaches soapmaking using goat milk, natural ingredients, essential oils and sustainable practices with a mission to give back to the community, both locally and globally. They’ve been able to teach many soapmaking classes locally as well as to help start a soap project in Haiti. They were supposed to go to Guatemala in the Spring of this year to teach soapmaking to teen girls & young women for vocational training, but that project is on-hold due to COVID.

Check out more info about Ms. Tori and Share the Soap HERE