About Maya

Maya Ferreira opened Low Tide in 2019, in a converted boat shed on Harbor Street.

A row of electric potter's wheels with water buckets in front of hand-painted wooden chairs, in a white-paneled studio with framed posters

Photo: "Ceramic Studio" by PunkToad, CC BY 2.0, resized.

Two women shaping clay on potter's wheels, one trimming a pot with a metal tool

Photo: "Crafting Heritage: A Woman Shaping Tradition in Dhaka" by Masumcity, CC BY-SA 4.0, resized and cropped.

She trained in a community college ceramics program, then spent a decade as a production potter, throwing thousands of plates a year for three restaurants in the city.

A speckled terracotta bowl filled with dozens of tiny glazed pots, jugs, cups, and teapots

Photo: "Ceramics handiwork" by Filip Maljković, CC BY-SA 2.0, resized.

She opened the studio to teach the part nobody teaches: how to make the same bowl twenty times.

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