Echo Art Studio is a high fire ceramic and fine art studio, teaching students in the Los Angeles area since 1999. We take pride in quality of our instruction and even developed our own Echo method of throwing, where everybody will make a pot on their first day! As we go along teaching students and helping members, we develop products that help us and everyone else at the studio to be a better artist. Thus, we designed and now manufacture and sell all over the world our own Claypron, split and overlapped apron for ceramic artists. We make and sell our beautiful cone 10 glazes. We expanded into fine art territory in 2020 by adding a spacious bright art room and hiring the most wonderful fine arts teachers to teach our painting classes.
Come in and give it a try!
MEET OUR INSTRUCTORS
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Ki Cho
Ki Cho is the founder of Echo Ceramics studio aka Echo Art Studio. He was studying architecture, when he discovered his love for ceramics. He changed his major and has been exploring ceramic art ever since, eventually developing his own method of teaching, which Echo Ceramics is known for.
Ki teaches intermediate classes and is a driving force behind Echo Ceramics community. His excellent input has helped hundreds of potters and sculptors reach their goals.
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Yuli Filippova
Yuli Filippova is a CFO of Echo Ceramics aka Echo Art Studio since 2003. Yuli has been enthralled with pottery ever since she stepped foot into a ceramic studio in 1999. Now, she's well versed in loading kilns, mixing glazes, teaching students, and running the studio. Yuli obtained her Reiki attunements and certification in 2018 and has been practicing mindfulness, yoga, and healing ever since. If you e-mail us, she's the one to answer all your questions.
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Carlos De La Rivera
Carlos De La Rivera is an accomplished fine artist and a potter and sculptor, with more than 40 years of experience in ceramics. Carlos is well known for his illustrations, postcards, drawings, pottery and sculpture. He's been teaching at Echo Ceramics since the studio first opened.
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Gretchen Ou
Gretchen Ou is a passionate painter, potter, and teaching artist from Southern California. She studied Art, with a focus on painting, and Arts Education at UCLA. Helping others to discover their creativity and develop their own creative path is integral to her own art practice. She sees creative work as a dialog and something that is deeply enriched by sharing it with others.
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Artemis Zavaliangos-Petropulu
Artemis fell hard for pottery after taking the intro cto wheel class at Echo and, ever since, she can more often than not find herself in the members room in the evenings eating snacks and giggling over goofy clay creations. By day, Artemis is a neuroscience researcher, so she can and will talk your ear off about mental health and meditative benefits of learning how to throw. She teaches the Sunday intro to wheel class.
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Catherine Rhodes
Ever since she took her first ceramics class 27 years ago, Catherine has been making pots and reveling in the limitless possibilities of creation– from hand building to the wheel to all the intersections in between–with particular attention to textures and details. “My personal motto is: What you give away, you keep forever,” she says. “It’s all about sharing ideas and learning from each other.”
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Jane Jenkins
Jane Jenkins took a ceramics class almost 20 years ago to reduce the stress of her daily job as a casting director. She loved the process and never stopped. Now that she's retired Jane has been thrilled to help bring the enjoyment of playing with clay to others. Jane teaches Friday Hand-building class.
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Sheri Sanders
A Los Angeles native, Sheri studied jewelry design and ceramic arts at Ottis College of Art and Design after a multifaceted career in fashion, merchandising and manufacturing in the swimwear industry. She enjoys sharing her enthusiasm and knowledge with students introducing them to this wonderful creative medium. Sheri teachers Saturday morning hand-building class.
We are located at 3375 Motor Ave. in Los Angeles, CA, 90034 just north of Culver City.
Please e-mail us with questions.