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Assignments that introduce an aspect of skill building as well as encourage students to explore the material creatively are given.  By offering students the technical information available, an opportunity for discovery and advancement arises.  Through demonstrations, slide lectures and research assignments students receive a well rounded education of ceramics.  Along with this, ceramics class is a place to begin seeing things again for the first time. A coffee mug is never the same after you have to make one yourself.  Rims, bellies, shoulders, and feet must all be carefully considered to make a pot sing. Frequent critiques of form and process, or group discussions about decisions made by individuals create a studio environment of sharing and learning.

1999-01     Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, MFA
1994-99     Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, BFA

A potter friend of mine once suggested that people make pots that look like themselves.  I love the idea. It is tradition in ceramics to refer to parts of pots as if they were human- lip, shoulder, belly, and foot. There is certainly a figurative quality to my work. Recently I have been exploring surface.  By carving, using slips, stains, and layered glazes I build rich surfaces.  I like to think of these surfaces as a way to dress the pots.  I have always worked relatively small in scale-hand-sized usually.  Pots can be a very intimate part of life.  Giving people something they can turn in their hands, bring to their lips, or enjoy food from is why I am a potter.

2004 Eastfield College, Ceramics Instructor, Dallas, TX
2004-present The Craft Guild of Dallas, Ceramics Instructor, Dallas TX
2004 The Craft Guild of Dallas, Surface Design Workshop, Dallas, TX
2004 Judge of the International Porcelain Artist Exhibition, Dallas, TX
2003-present  Southern Methodist University, Ceramics Instructor for Community Education, Dallas, TX
2001-02 Shawnee State University, Ceramics Instructor, Portsmouth, OH
1999-2001, Ohio State University, Ceramics and Drawing Instructor                                  


PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
 2003-present, Go Van Gogh Volunteer with the Dallas Museum of Art     
 2004, Judge of the International Porcelain Artist and Teacher International Exhibit   
 2002, Functional Ceramics Workshop       
 2000-2002, Artist Assistant to Dorothy Gill Barnes         
 2000, Guest Artist at San Jose State University       
 1999-2001, Preparing Studio Art Faculty Program-OSU    
 1997&1998, Clay Workshops at Bowling Green State University

Selected Exhibitions:
2004 About Surface, Treetop Gallery, Dallas, TX
2001 Abstraction ‘01, Period Gallery, Omaha,NE  
2001 Emerging Artists, Ohio Arts Council Gallery, Columbus, OH
2001 Stacked, MFA Thesis Exhibition
2001 Solo Exhibition, Alfred University, NY
1999 Passion and Process, NCECA National Student Show, Columbus, OH
1999 Seed Merchant's Warehouse Invitational Show, Toledo, OH
1999 BFA Thesis Exhibition
1998 Fall Show, Spectrum Gallery, Toledo, OH

Publications:
2001 Abstraction ‘01 Exhibition Catalogue
1999 Passion and Process, Review of The NCECA National Student Exhibition

Lectures and Workshops

2004 Surface Design workshop at The Craft Guild of Dallas, Dallas, TX
2000 San Jose State University, slide lecture and demonstrations, San Jose, CA

Related Experience

2001-02  Artist Assistant to Dorothy Gilll-Barnes, Columbus, OH
1999-01  Preparing Studio Art Faculty Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

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