I truly enjoy making pots. I love the challenge of making a good, useful pot that someone will enjoy using every day. When I sit at my wheel each day I try to focus on how this piece will be used… how the rim will feel against the lip, if the handle will be comfortable to the hand and if this pot's form will hold someone's interest years from now. I'm also excited by the surfaces I've been able to achieve with soda firing and how that has allowed me to explore the relationship between surface and form.

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Education
1991:  BFA, California State University at Fullerton

1995 to present: Attended various ceramics courses and workshops including a two-week Wood Firing course at Penland School of Crafts, Summer 2004 and weekend workshops with Ruthanne Tudball, Sylvie Granatelli and Nick Joerling.

 


Exhibitions & awards:

Blowing Rock Art in the Park Artist of Distinction
July 2008, Blowing Rock, NC

Vessels 2007, Juried Exhibition
February 2007, Claymakers, Durham, NC

Fine Contemporary Crafts
November 2006, Artspace, Raleigh, NC

Exploring Ceramic Surfaces: Works by North Carolina Clay Artists
October, 2006, Claymakers, Durham, NC

Nellie Allen Smith Commemorative
September 2006, Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, NC
   

Art Shows:

American Craft Council Show, Atlanta GA 2010

Art in the Park, Blowing Rock, NC

Carolina Designer Craftsmen Annual Show, Raleigh,NC

Associations:
Clayworks Potters Guild


Galleries:

Imagine That Fine Craft Gallery, Skaneateles, NY

Lyn Morrow Pottery, Pittsboro, NC

Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI

The Real Mother Goose, Portland, OR

Show of Hands Fine Crafts Gallery, Denver, CO

Soque Artworks, Clarkesville, GA



 
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