Fall 2025 OLLI Digital Catalog 

Creative Fun With Ceramics (B321)

B – Fine Arts

Beginners and experienced students enjoy sculpting and ceramic techniques. Beginners work with the instructor alongside experienced students using simple coils, slabs and hand sculpting of figures, bas relief and ceramics. Emphasis on form and textures. Be creative; try what appeals to you.

Additional fee: $40 materials fee, payable to instructor.

This offering meets for a total of 13 session(s).

INSTRUCTORS: Joseph Germano, Lynne Seligman, Svetlana Lisanti

GERMANO, JOSEPH — Business degree, University of Pennsylvania. Retired from JPMorgan Chase credit card after 50 years managing and designing computer systems for various companies in the Philadelphia region. Hobbies include bonsai, ceramics, sculpture, art and gardening. Studied ceramics for two years at Absalom-Jones Art Studio. (B321, B322)

SELIGMAN, LYNNE — B.S., man-environment relations, Penn State University; M.B.A., Penn State. Instructor of business administration at Penn State, and prior to that, new product project manager at Freddie Mac charged with executing creative new ways to finance home mortgages. Has volunteered as robotics coach at a local middle school for 17 years, and has been a board member and officer on several state and local nonprofits. A passionate, but relative new-comer, to ceramics. (B321, B322)

LISANTI, SVETLANA — B.A., modern languages, Brooklyn College, State University of New York. Lifelong love of ceramics dates back to age eight when she made her first ashtray for her father’s birthday. In between a career of teaching and running her own medical education business, she squeezed in ceramic studies at the Center for the Creative Arts, Absalom Jones and for the last three years at OLLI. (B321, B322)

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