Directly across the parking lot from Staples
Crafting a Community One Piece at a Time
Cape Pottery & Supply grew from a simple obsession with the tactile wonder of raw clay and the magic of the kiln. Founded on Cape Cod and located in Hyannis, our studio was created to be more than a pottery studio and supply store. It is a sanctuary for makers, a creative gathering place for artists, hobbyists, beginners, families, and working potters who want access to quality materials, thoughtful instruction, and a welcoming clay community.
We believe pottery is a language of touch, creativity, and connection. Every piece begins with the hands, but it is shaped by curiosity, patience, and the joy of making something meaningful. From the first bag of clay to every workshop we host, our heart remains in the hands-on process of helping people learn, create, and connect.
Whether you are touching clay for the first time, returning to a creative practice, refining your wheel throwing, exploring hand building, or developing more advanced ceramic work, our studio offers a supportive environment where learning feels approachable and creativity has room to grow.
OUR BEGINNINGS
Our Mission & Values
We aim to foster a vibrant community by providing high-quality ceramics education and professional supplies to artists of all levels, from curious beginners to seasoned professionals.
Community First
We believe pottery is a shared journey. Our studio is a warm hub for connection and growth.
Quality Supplies
From premium glaze to professional tools, we source only the best materials for your art.
Expert Education
Learn from local masters in workshops designed to elevate your skills and confidence.
At the Studio
Step into a studio designed for mastery, inspiration, and thoughtful care. With years of collective experience, Cape Pottery & Supply offers a professional, fully equipped workspace where hobbyists and experienced ceramic artists can explore the tactile beauty of clay with confidence. Our studio is also equipped with an air filtration system designed to help reduce airborne clay and silica dust, supporting a cleaner, safer, and more comfortable environment for students, instructors, and open studio members alike.
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Join Our Clay Community
Whether you're picking up your first lump of clay or looking for professional materials, we're here to support every step of your creative journey.
The Hands Behind the Clay
Joan Zagrobelny
Neil Grant
Ceramic Instructor
Sculpture instructor
Joan Zagrobelny is a distinguished ceramicist whose creations explore the intimate relationship between hand-built forms and the organic textures of raw clay. Mostly self-taught, Joan forged a unique artistic identity through tireless experimentation and focused study. Her evolution as an artist was further enriched by learning from acclaimed masters, whose mentorship helped refine her evocative, deliberate approach to working with ceramics.
Joan’s expertise has been recognized through prestigious residencies at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft, the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, and c.r.e.t.a. in Rome. Her portfolio has been featured in national juried shows and prestigious galleries in major hubs including New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Rome, earning her both local respect and international prestige.
Her work is frequently characterized as personal and enigmatic, driven by intuition. By utilizing hand-building techniques and complex surface treatments, Joan crafts vessels and sculptures that invite the viewer into a space of quiet contemplation. Each piece serves as a medium for discovery, illustrating the potential of clay to act as a powerful vessel for abstract storytelling.
As a dedicated member of the New England Sculptors Association, she remains deeply engaged in the evolving dialogue of contemporary ceramics and sculptural innovation. She can be found teaching classes at several art centers across Cape Cod.
At Cape Pottery & Supply, Joan brings her experience, artistic sensitivity, and love of clay to our creative community. Her workshops invite students to slow down, trust their hands, and explore clay as an expressive material rather than simply a project to complete. Through techniques such as coiling, shaping, texture, and form development, Joan encourages potters to discover their own creative voice. Her presence in the studio reflects what Cape Pottery & Supply values most: thoughtful instruction, creative exploration, and the joy of making meaningful work by hand.
Neil Grant is an award-winning English sculptor living on Cape Cod, known for work that combines technical mastery, storytelling, emotion, and humor. His sculptures reflect a rare balance of precision and personality, inviting viewers to look closely, think deeply, and often walk away with a smile.
Neil is drawn to art that uses a high level of skill to create an emotional response. As he describes it, his destination as a sculptor is to produce pieces that show mastery of the medium while causing the viewer to pause, consider the message, and discover the wit or humanity within the work. His sculptures often carry this sense of layered meaning, where craftsmanship and character come together in a way that feels both refined and approachable.
For Neil, sculpture is especially exciting because it offers a permanent way to tell a story. Clay, form, expression, and detail become tools for communication, allowing an idea or emotion to take shape in a lasting, physical form. His work has been influenced by a wide range of artists, sculptors, and creative voices. He admires the precision of Bernini, the ability of Houdon to express personality, and the bold edge of Banksy. These influences can be felt in Neil’s own approach, where classical skill meets humor, observation, and contemporary storytelling.
Having been inspired by so many remarkable artists, Neil has become deeply passionate about teaching and sharing the sculptural process with others. He believes that sculpture is not only for experienced artists but for anyone willing to observe, experiment, and work with their hands. His teaching style helps students understand form, proportion, expression, and character while encouraging them to develop their own creative voice.
Part of Neil’s mission through teaching is to help grow the population of sculptors on the Cape. His work with Cape Pottery & Supply reflects that vision: to create a welcoming place where students can learn from an accomplished artist, explore the possibilities of clay, and discover the joy of telling stories through sculpture.
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Kiley Labich
Lisa Holmes
Studio Manager
Pottery instructor
Kiley is a sculptor and hand builder based out of Cape Pottery & Supply, where she brings imagination, patience, and playfulness to the clay studio. Her first experience with ceramics began in high school, and clay quickly became her primary creative outlet.
Drawn to the calming, tactile nature of working by hand, Kiley loves the way clay allows an idea to slowly take shape through touch, texture, and form. For her, the process of building with clay is both grounding and expressive, offering a way to transform imagination into something tangible and full of personality.
Kiley is best known for her whimsical animal sculptures, which reflect her love of character, movement, and storytelling. Her work often carries a sense of charm and curiosity, inviting viewers to connect with each piece in a personal and lighthearted way.
She attended Algonquin Regional High School and continued her education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Through her creative practice, Kiley continues to explore sculpture, hand building, and the joy of bringing unique clay forms to life.
At Cape Pottery & Supply, Kiley is part of a creative community that celebrates learning, experimentation, and the handmade process.
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Lisa discovered her passion for pottery about four years ago when she decided to take a leap and try a wheel throwing class. What began as a new creative experience quickly became a deep love for clay, and she has been happily obsessed ever since.
Known around the studio as “Lisa Big Pots,” Lisa especially enjoys throwing larger forms on the wheel. She loves the challenge, strength, and rhythm required to create bigger pieces.
A therapist by day, Lisa deeply believes in the healing power of clay. For her, pottery offers a chance to slow down, reconnect with the present moment, and experience the calming, grounding nature of working with your hands. She understands how meaningful the creative process can be, not only as an art form, but as a way to relax, focus, and feel more connected to yourself.
Lisa is excited to share her love of pottery with others, especially students who are just beginning their clay journey. Her warm, encouraging approach helps students feel comfortable trying something new, embracing the learning process, and enjoying the imperfect beauty of handmade work.
At Cape Pottery & Supply, Lisa brings creativity, humor, patience, and a true love of clay to every class she teaches.
Lisa Rich
Taylor Tejada
Studio Assistant
Studio Assistant
Lisa comes to us after decades of working at charitable organizations and nonprofits in administration, being a “jack of all trades” over the years.
After a brief exposure to clay in the late 70s, she found her way back to pottery post covid at Cotuit Center for the Arts.
Her love of the art and her work in the community have led her to Cape Pottery and Supply as a studio monitor.
While she’s dabbled in hand-building and sculpture, she mostly finds herself sitting at the wheel. If you are new to pottery or have a question, don’t hesitate to ask. Always willing to help, she’ll answer your questions or find someone who can.
Taylor is a studio assistant and instructor at Cape Pottery & Supply who has quickly developed a deep love for working with clay. Over the past year, she has spent much of her time at the wheel, building her skills, experimenting with form, and continually challenging herself to throw larger and more ambitious pieces.
What Taylor enjoys most about pottery is the constant opportunity to learn, practice, and grow. She understands how rewarding it can feel to make progress at the wheel, especially when a new technique finally begins to click. That experience has made her especially enthusiastic about encouraging others as they build confidence in their own pottery practice.
In the studio, Taylor brings a friendly, supportive approach and a willingness to share what she has learned along the way. Whether you are just getting started or working toward your next personal goal, she is happy to help, answer questions, and cheer you on as you continue your own pottery journey.
Beth Collinge
Wendy Kapp
Pottery instructor
Surface Design Instructor
Beth Collinge began her pottery journey seven years ago at a studio in Connecticut, where she quickly discovered a deep love for clay. What started as a creative curiosity soon became an important part of her life and artistic practice.
For most of her first five years, Beth focused primarily on wheel throwing, exploring form, color, texture, and the many possibilities that come from working with clay on the wheel. She enjoyed learning how small changes in shape, proportion, surface detail, and glaze could completely transform a piece and give it its own unique character.
Beth began teaching two and a half years ago, which opened the door for her to explore clay in an even deeper way. Through teaching, she became more involved in hand building and began experimenting with a wide range of textures, layered surfaces, and color techniques.
She loves the creative freedom that hand building offers and enjoys helping students discover new ways to bring personality and expression into their work.
One technique Beth connected with immediately was screen printing on clay. She was drawn to the way silkscreens allow artists to layer colors, repeat imagery, experiment with pattern, and create unique surface designs that feel both playful and refined.
Since discovering the process, Beth has invested a great deal of time learning and practicing the technique, exploring how it can be used to add depth, movement, and personal style to ceramic pieces.
Beth is currently creating her own silk screens and hopes to share this process in an upcoming workshop at Cape Pottery & Supply.
She is excited to help students explore surface design, experiment with color, and discover the creative possibilities of printing on clay.
At Cape Pottery & Supply, Beth brings curiosity, warmth, and a love of experimentation to the studio. Her work and teaching reflect a belief that pottery is not only about form, but also about texture, color, pattern & learning.
Wendy Kapp is a self-taught artist, maker, and businesswoman who brings creativity, curiosity, and a strong visual voice to everything she creates. She is also the owner of Black Crow Gallery, where her appreciation for handmade work, artistic expression, and creative community continues to shape her path as both an artist and entrepreneur.
Wendy’s work is known for its beautiful sgraffito, layered surface decoration, and strong sense of pattern, texture, and story. She is drawn to the surface of clay as a place for drawing, mark-making, and personal expression, using line, contrast, and detail to bring depth and meaning to each piece. Her work often reflects the beauty of handmade imperfection, where every carved line, layered mark, and textured surface becomes part of the story.
In the studio, Wendy encourages students to see clay not only as a form, but as a canvas. Her workshops invite makers to explore surface design through carving, pattern building, illustration, texture, and thoughtful decoration. Whether students are new to clay or looking to expand their creative practice, Wendy helps them discover how marks, layers, and imagery can transform a simple ceramic piece into something personal and expressive.
Her teaching style is warm, thoughtful, and encouraging, rooted in a deep appreciation for handmade work and the creative process. Wendy believes that each student brings their own story to the clay, and she enjoys helping makers develop the confidence to explore their individual style, trust their instincts, and enjoy the process of creating by hand.
As both an artist and gallery owner, Wendy brings a unique perspective to the studio. She understands the importance of craftsmanship, presentation, creative identity, and building a body of work that feels authentic. Her experience as a maker and businesswoman allows her to support students not only in technique, but also in thinking more deeply about their creative voice and the meaning behind their work.
Wendy's presence there reflects her love of connection, storytelling, and bringing handmade art into everyday spaces where people can experience it up close.
At Cape Pottery & Supply, Wendy brings an artist’s eye, a maker’s heart, and a love of surface design to the studio community.
Debra Troyanos
Daniel Diehl
Pottery instructor
Ceramic Artist & Instructor
Debra Troyanos is a passionate pottery instructor who believes that working with clay is a powerful form of self-expression and discovery.
With a background in fine arts and years of dedicated practice, she brings a wealth of knowledge and creative energy to the studio.
Debra’s approach to teaching is rooted in patience and encouragement, helping students of all skill levels find their unique voice while mastering the technical aspects of wheel throwing and hand-building.
At Cape Pottery & Supply, Debra is known for her insightful workshops that focus on the intersection of form and function. She enjoys sharing her love for intricate surface designs and experimental glazing techniques, guiding students to push beyond their boundaries and explore new artistic possibilities. Her goal is to create an inspiring environment where every potter feels supported and empowered to grow.
Daniel Diehl is an accomplished ceramic artist and instructor with a deep-seated love for the tactile and transformative nature of clay. His work often reflects his fascination with architectural forms and natural cycles, resulting in pieces that are both structurally sound and organically evocative.
Daniel’s extensive experience in the field, coupled with his background in design, allows him to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of contemporary ceramic practices.
In his classes at Cape Pottery & Supply, Daniel emphasizes the importance of craftsmanship and intentional design. He encourages his students to explore the dialogue between their hands and the material, fostering a deep connection to the creative process. Daniel’s collaborative and thoughtful teaching style makes him a beloved figure in the studio, where he is dedicated to growing a vibrant and skilled community of makers.
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Rebecca Matarazzi
Potter, Ceramic Artist & Instructor
Rebecca’s work in the studio is the natural progression of two lifelong passions: the preparation, presentation, and shared enjoyment of beautiful food, and the satisfaction of feeling an object take form in her hands from a simple mound of clay. Her creative path has always lived at the intersection of art, function, craft, and gathering.
After receiving a degree in Ceramic Arts from Penn State, Rebecca built a successful career as an executive chef, working primarily in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Boston. When she was ready to hang up her professional apron, she returned to the clay studio, where she could use her knowledge, discipline, and creative instincts.
Rebecca creates functional pieces for the kitchen, table, and home. Her work includes both wheel-thrown and hand-built vessels made from stoneware and terra cotta clays. Each piece is designed for everyday use while still carrying the expressive quality and individuality of handmade work.
Rebecca finishes her pieces with colors, patterns, and designs inspired by the natural landscape. Her work reflects a love of surface, detail, and the quiet beauty found in organic forms, changing light, and the places that shape her life.
Every piece Rebecca makes is unique by nature. She embraces the subtle variations that come from glaze movement, individual firings, and the character of the clay itself. Which earn the nickname "The Glaze Lady". These small differences give each piece an irreproducible quality that belongs only to handmade objects.
At Cape Pottery & Supply, Rebecca brings a rich blend of ceramic training, culinary experience, creativity, and thoughtful craftsmanship to the studio community.
Alexa Nickandros
Potter,Artist & Instructor
Alexa is a lifelong artist who found clay to be a natural home for her creativity, bringing together her love of form, texture, sculpture, surface design, and function. After graduating from UMass Amherst with a degree in Cognitive Science, she began focusing on pottery in 2019 in Western Massachusetts and has been teaching on Cape Cod since 2023.
Her work is often inspired by the natural world and combines wheel-thrown forms with sculpted details. She especially enjoys creating planters for specific plants in her own collection, along with custom handmade pieces meant to be used, loved, and shared.
In the studio, Alexa is known for her patient, encouraging, and down-to-earth teaching style. She understands that learning pottery can feel both exciting and humbling, especially in the beginning, and she helps students feel comfortable as they build confidence one step at a time.
Whether she is guiding someone at the wheel or supporting a hand-building project, Alexa meets each student where they are with warmth, humor, and thoughtful instruction. Her goal is to help students trust their hands, enjoy the process, and begin finding their own creative voice with clay.
Alexa believes that pottery is as much about the experience as it is about the finished piece. She encourages students to slow down, stay curious, and see each mistake as part of the learning process. Her supportive approach helps new makers feel less intimidated and more open to experimenting, practicing, and discovering what clay can become.
At Cape Pottery & Supply, Alexa brings kindness, creativity, and a love of teaching to the studio community. She is passionate about helping students feel welcomed, capable, and inspired as they develop their own relationship with clay.
Studio Assistant
Kyle Bowser
Potter, Ceramic Artist & Instructor
Kyle is a lifelong Cape Codder and longtime crafter who has always enjoyed making things by hand. After discovering pottery a little over a year ago, she quickly found herself spending more and more time at the wheel.
Since then, she’s taken a number of pottery courses and continues to explore different clay bodies, glazes, and techniques. She especially enjoys experimenting and seeing what happens when she tries something new.
Outside of pottery, Kyle is a stay-at-home mom of three, so time in the studio is a favorite creative escape. Her background in making and years of working with people make her happy to lend a hand whenever she can.
While she’s still relatively new to pottery, she remembers what it’s like to learn the basics of throwing—and all the questions that come with it. If you’re new to pottery or just have a question, don’t hesitate to ask. She’s always happy to help, talk through an idea, or find an answer if she doesn’t know it herself.
Ron Dean
Potter,Artist & Instructor
Ron Dean has been making pottery since 1969, bringing decades of experience, craftsmanship, and curiosity to his work in clay. His ceramic journey began at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, New York, where he worked and taught before eventually making his way to Cape Cod in the early 1980s.
Ron works in a variety of clay bodies and firing styles, including stoneware, porcelain, and raku. His pieces may be created on the potter’s wheel, through handbuilding, or by hand, depending on the form and intention of the work. He produces both functional pottery and nonfunctional, form-oriented pieces, allowing him to explore the balance between usefulness, sculptural expression, and the natural unpredictability of the ceramic process.
His functional pottery is thoughtfully made for everyday use. These pieces are lead-free, dishwasher-safe, microwave-safe, and oven-proof, combining beauty, durability, and practicality. Ron’s work carries the unmistakable presence of an artist who understands both tradition and experimentation.
In addition to his functional ware, Ron also creates nonfunctional pots using primitive firing techniques. These pieces celebrate the raw, elemental nature of clay and fire, often revealing surfaces, textures, and markings that can only happen through the firing process.