I am a full-time studio artist and ceramics instructor in Massachusetts.
I grew up in Louisville, KY where I have fond memories of rooting for the Belle of Louisville and watching hot air balloons over head at Derby time, going to Louisville Stoneware on school field trips, and visiting the Speed Art Museum and Joe Ley’s three-story antiques store with my 
parents. During high school, we moved to Rockville, MD where I lost my twang, had access to the Smithsonians and began my pursuit of ceramics, receiving my Associates degree in Studio Arts majoring in Ceramics from Montgomery College in 1993. I then received my BFA in Ceramics from the N.Y.S.C.C. at Alfred University in 1995.
From there I moved to the Motor City for two years where I worked as an Intern in the Greenfield Village Pottery at the Henry Ford Museum outside of Detroit throwing pots in front of visitors for fourteen months, followed by an Artist-In-Residence position at John Glick’s Plum Tree Pottery in Farmingtion Hills, MI. The next 
year, I moved to Gatlinburg, TN to be in Artist-In-Residence at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.
I was a graduate student at Ohio University in Athens, OH from 1998-2001 where I received my MFA in Ceramics. I moved to Massachusetts the summer after graduating to be an 
Artist-In-Residence at the Worcester Center for Crafts where I have taught ever since. My studio is in my home northwest of Worcester where I live with my husband and have started to drop my r’s, but still say “pop”.
I have exhibited my work internationally in juried and invitational exhibitions, as well as taught workshops around North America at craft centers and universities. My work is in numerous private and public collections including the Taipei County Yingee Ceramics Museum in Taipei, Taiwan (pictured), the Guldagergård Museum of International Ceramic Art in Skælskør, Denmark, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, IN.
