I am a full-time studio potter, workshop leader, and
ceramics instructor working in north central Massachusetts.
I was a kid in Louisville, KY, and went to high school and started college in 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 Detroit where I worked as an Intern in the Greenfield Village Pottery at the Henry Ford Museum, followed by an Artist-In-Residence position at John Glick’s Plum Tree Pottery in Farmington 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 continue to teach adult community ceramics classes part-time. My studio is in our home northwest of Worcester where I live with my darlin’ husband, and do some summer gardening.
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, the Guldagergård Museum of International Ceramic Art in Skælskør, Denmark, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, IN.
Images top to bottom: Albert Paley’s gate at the Renwick in D.C.; platter I own by friend and mentor John Glick; vessel by my Ohio University Professor Brad Schwieger; our home in Massachusetts; and my corset vessel purchased by the Yingee Ceramics Museum in Taiwan, 2005.
