About the Artist

Creative outlet can take on many shapes and paths – for me, it traveled through academic research in art history to cooking to baking to pottery making.  I learned that I love to make things that my family can enjoy, whether through flavor, visual, or tactile sensation. 

There is unlimited direction and exploration through clay. The full physical and creative intensity of working with clay has captured me entirely. I get lost in the process, letting the clay lead me to grow my skill and concepts. Clay also humbles me to accept unpredictability and variation of outcomes.  A useful skill in pottery, as in life...

I work primarily on the wheel, making forms based in a tradition of function and use. The clean lines of mid-century art inspires me to perfect my work, while creating tension in the surprises that occur in the kiln. I enjoy finding balance in the form as it relates to function. 

Details about my art journey:

Glassell Studio School MFAH, Houston, TX,  2014-current

The Art School at Old Church, Demarest, NJ,  2007-2013

BA Art History, Kenyon College, 1990

Exhibitions:

• The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Formative Narratives, A ClayHouston Member Exhibition 2024

• The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Flux: A ClayHouston Member Exhibition 2023

• Glassell Studio School MFAH, Student Exhibition, 2022, 2023, 2024

• Gallery Verde, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Selections from the Glassell Studio School Ceramics, 2022

•  Kinder Morgan Exhibition Series: Winter 2019, Fall 2020, Wilderness 2022, Touch 2024