Meet the Instructors

Cathleen Sullivan

Cathleen Sullivan is a mixed-media artist, educator, and founder of Treasure Coast Pottery in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Her artistic practice spans ceramics, printmaking, collage, painting, and mixed media, with a particular interest in surface development, layering, and visual storytelling.

Although Cathleen has been engaged in art throughout her life, it was clay that captured her attention in 2003. Ceramics provided a unique intersection of sculptural form, material exploration, and glaze chemistry. Following an immersive art and ceramics experience in Italy with the International Ceramics Arts Network in 2013, she returned to college in 2016 to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Art, graduating summa cum laude in 2020.

Since then, Cathleen has continued to expand her practice through extensive study in printmaking, encaustics, mixed media, contemporary painting, and art history. Workshops, mentorships, artist residencies, and professional development opportunities with leading artists throughout the United States and abroad continue to inform her evolving work and teaching philosophy.

In 2020, after relocating to Port St. Lucie, Cathleen recognized the need for greater access to community-based arts education. She founded Treasure Coast Pottery to create an inclusive space where artists of all experience levels could learn, create, and connect. What began as a pottery studio has since evolved into a multidisciplinary community arts center offering ceramics, painting, printmaking, mixed media, youth programming, and homeschool education. Cathleen is a Step Up for Students provider for both ceramics and painting instruction.

Beyond her studio practice, Cathleen is actively involved in arts advocacy and cultural development throughout the Treasure Coast. She serves as Secretary of the St. Lucie Cultural Alliance and participates in the Port St. Lucie Public Art Advisory Board, helping advance public art, arts education, and creative opportunities throughout the region.

Cathleen currently manages Treasure Coast Pottery while teaching alongside a team of talented instructors. Her favorite area of instruction remains surface decoration and the exploration of imagery across multiple artistic mediums.

To view Cathleen’s artwork and professional CV, visit SullieArt.com.

JIMENA ROMAN

Jimena Román is an artist born in Quito, Ecuador with more than 40 years of experience in the visual arts. She studied Ceramics and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Quito, where she developed a strong foundation in drawing, painting, sculpture, and ceramic arts.

In 2009, she moved to Florida and began working as an art instructor. She continued her artistic education in New York, earning a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture in 2013.

In 2014, Jimena received several prestigious awards in New York City, including First Place Sculpture (Richman Award) at the Salmagundi Club, the Henry O’Connor Award, and an Honorable Mention Award for Sculpture from the Sculptors’ Society of New York.

Jimena Román has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Ecuador and the United States.

In 2015, she relocated to California, where she completed a ceramics residency at the American Museum of Ceramic Art and worked as an art instructor at The Learning Centers at Fairplex, the Millard Sheets Art Center, and US Fine Arts.

In 2017, she was selected as a Resident Artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami, Florida.

Since moving to Port St. Lucie in 2018, she has operated JR Art Design, working from her private studio while creating new sculptural works for exhibition and sharing her passion for the arts.

Courtney Page

Courtney is a Florida native and ceramic artist who earned her BFA with a concentration in ceramics from Florida Atlantic University in 2007. For nearly two decades, she has worked as a studio potter, creating functional pottery from her home studio with a focus on craftsmanship, form, and everyday beauty.

With over ten years of teaching experience—including a decade as an instructor at Lighthouse ArtCenter—Courtney brings a thoughtful, student-centered approach to ceramics education. She is passionate about guiding students through both the technical foundations of clay and the expressive possibilities of the medium, fostering confidence, curiosity, and a lasting appreciation for the ceramic arts.

Gabriela Ramos

Gabriela is a ceramic artist currently studying Art Education at Florida Atlantic University. Art has always been a constant in her life, but it wasn’t until discovering ceramics in high school that a new creative flame was sparked. Working with clay felt intuitive to her, and she found a deep sense of fulfillment in translating her ideas into something tangible. Since then, Gabriela has taken a special interest in handbuilding, which allows her to work sculpturally and experimentally. Much of her work takes inspiration from coastal and tropical landscapes, often incorporating marine motifs and the organic textures of the ocean in her pieces. Curiosity and a love for exploration are at the heart of her creative process.

Gabriela looks forward to a future where she can combine her artistic practice with education in the classroom, fostering a space that promotes creative risk-taking and self-expression to the next generation of artists. She hopes to inspire students to find joy and confidence in their process, and to explore art as a powerful tool for self-discovery and connection.