My name is Joseph Jordi Marqués-Falk (Jordi). I'm a Maui based ceramics teacher with a lifelong passion for wheel thrown functional ceramic art. When I was twelve years old I enrolled in a weekly ceramics class for teens that I regularly attended up until my graduation from high school in 2011. I continued taking pottery classes in college, ultimately graduating with a BA in philosophy from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in May of 2015. In June I moved to Maui, and by August of 2015 I started making pottery at the Hui No’eau Visual Arts Center, Maui’s premier pottery guild. Jobst and Deb trained me to fire the Olsen updraft kilns there and when Jobst left in 2019 I replaced him as the Hui’s sole firing technician. I began teaching pottery classes at the Hui in September of 2020, and in 2021 I was hired to teach the ceramics class for the Haleakala Waldorf High School in addition to my firing and teaching responsibilities at the Hui. I moved on from all that at the start of 2022; these days, I teach individual and group classes out of my home studio. With three kilns, seven wheels and hundreds of pounds of clay at my disposal, I have everything I need to run a successful private teaching practice. My classes are generally met with enthusiasm because I empower the creative capacity inherent in all my students, and I encourage everyone to have fun with the process and not focus so much on the end result. The philosophical insights that I weave into my pottery lessons are informed by my Masters Degree in East West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies that I am on track to complete at the end of 2024. A selection of my academic work is accessible on this website in the ‘philosophy’ section.