Bio
Education
2013 Bachelor of Arts , Digital Media and Film and Studio Arts (Ceramics Concentration) Summa cum Laude, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY1993-94 Recording Industry and Music Business , Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN1989 Audio Recording Industry Certificate , Salutatorian, Full Sail Center for Recording Arts, Winter Park, FL1983-1989 Recording Industry and Music Business , University of Memphis, Memphis, TN1985 Business Management , Southwest Tennessee Community College, Memphis, TN
Teaching and Speaking Engagements
2017-Present Art Off Center, LLC., Wheel Throwing, Sculpture, Hand Building, Children’s Classes, Taylor, TX
2023 NCECA, Past Masters-Anthony Merino, Cincinnati, OH
2016 Spring Invitational, Group Show, Bastrop Opera House, Bastrop, TX
2015 ScanCeram 2015, Scandinavian Ceramics Conference, “It’s a Man’s World, but it’s a Women’s World Wide Web”, Tolne Skov Pavilion, North Jutland, Denmark
Visiting Artist Lectures and Workshops
2020 GACA, Color Collage on Clay, Austin, TX
2018 Texas Pottery and Sculpture Guild, Color Collage on Clay Workshop, Arlington, TX
2017 CERA, Color Collage on Clay Workshop, Ft. Worth, TX
2017 Art Off Center, Color Collage on Clay Workshop, Taylor, TX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Taylor Studio Tour, Art Off Center, Taylor, TX2023 Birdsong-Eve’s Picnic, McCrory Timmerman Gallery, Taylor, TX2022 Birdsong-Living in the Anthropocene, McCrory Timmerman Gallery, Taylor, TX2019 Jewels of Earth and Fire, Khazana Gallery, Minneapolis, MN2018 Jackley and Shaw, McCrory Timmerman Gallery, Taylor, TX2018 2nd Annual Mug Show, Dog’s Eye Gallery, San Marcos, TX2018 Cups for Y’all, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX2017 Locomotion, TAGat120ART, Taylor, TX2017 CAMEO Members Show, Tea Plus Art, Houston, TX2017 Tiny Monsters, Fe Gallery, Sacramento, CA2017 Texas Yunomi Show, Tea Plus Art, Houston, TX2017 Cameo: Members Show, Tea Plus Art, Houston, TX2017 National Juried Mug Show, Dog’s Eye Gallery, San Marcos, TX2017 Far Country, TAGat120ART, Taylor, TX2017 Mostly Clay, Studio Espavo, Bastrop, TX2017 Gems of the Hills, Tea Plus Art, Houston, TX2017 Cameo: Texas Teapot Tournament, Tea Plus Art, Houston, TX2016 Alchemy, Group Show, Taylor, TX2016 Glazes Galore: Tea Bowls, Tea Plus Art, Houston, TX2016 Far Country, TAGat120ART, Taylor, TX2016 Spring Invitational, Bastrop Opera House, Bastrop, TX2016 Texas Six Pack Show, Coop Gallery, San Angelo, TX2016 Makers Curate/Curators Make, UMKC Gallery of Art,Kansas City, MO2015 Nov. Featured Artist-Bastrop First Friday Art Walk, Lost Pines Art Bazaar, Bastrop, TX2015 Texas Six Pack Show, Live Oak Arts Center, Columbus, TX2015 ScanCeram Presenters Exhibition, Tolne Skov Pavilion, Nordjylland, Denmark2015 April Featured Artist, Bastrop First Friday Art Walk, Bastrop Frame Shop, Bastrop, TX2015 Eat Me, Drink Me,TAGat120ART, Taylor, TX 2012 Loft 594, Anti-Xmas-Holiday Craft Bazaar, Bushwick, NY2011 Thomas Hunter Art Space, Hunter College , New York, NY2010 Thomas Hunter Art Space, Hunter College , New York, NY
Residencies
2015 Penland School of Crafts, Work Study Scholarship, Penland, NC2013 Watershed, Artist in Residence, Newcastle, ME2013 Hunter College, Artist in Residence, New York, NY2013 Brickhouse Ceramic Art Center, Artist in Residence, New York, NY2011 Guaitil Pottery, Summer Residency, Tamarindo, Costa Rica
Curation
2020 Critical Function 2, Group Show, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond VA2019 Jewels of Earth and Fire, Group Show, Khazana Gallery, Minneapolis, MN2018 Critical Function, Group Show, FrameHouse and Jask Gallery, Pittsburg, PA2018 Funk American Dada, Group Show, Manchester Craft Guild, Pittsburg, PA2017 Mostly Clay, Group Show, Studio Espavo, Bastrop, TX2017 Gems of the Hills, Group Show, Tea Plus Art, Houston, TX2016 Spring Invitational, Group Show, Bastrop Opera House, Bastrop, TX2016 50 Women, NCECA Concurrent Exhibition, American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, MO
Professional Associations and Experience
2014-23 NCECA Member2019-21 PAAB, Taylor, TX Public Arts Advisory Board2015-19 Potters Council Member2015-19 Bastrop Clay Arts2017 CAMEO, Houston, TX2016-17 Greater Austin Clay Artists2016-17 Taylor Arts Board Member2015-17 Taylor Arts Guild Member2015-17 Texas Clay Arts Association Member2015 Bastrop Fine Arts Guild Member
Additional Education
20 23 Mentorship Program, Naomi Clement, Stratford, ON, Canada20 22 Roadrunner Clay Consortium, Brodnax, Ellis, Hauser, San Antonio, TX20 22-23 Surface Design Class, Carol Guthro, Online20 21 Image Transfer Workshop, Carol Guthro, Online2020 Creative Pottery, Deborah Schwartzkopf, Online2020 Hand Building, Sunshine Cobb, Online2018 SPI Art Space , CJ Neihaus, The Drawn Surface Workshop, South Padre Island, TX2016 Hand Building with Pattern, Annie Chrietzberg, Online2016 Eye of the Dog , Renee LoPresti Color and Pattern Workshop, San Marcos, TX2016 Lee College , John Britt Glaze Workshop, Baytown, TX2014-15 Armadillo Clay , Mayco Glazing and screen printing workshops, Austin, TX2013 The Clay Studio , Kiln Firing and Maintenance workshops, Philadelphia, PA2007-2012 Greenwich House Pottery , Wheel, Majolica and China painting, Mold making, slip casting, New York, NY1999-2000 Educational Alliance Art School , Ceramics-Wheel throwing/slab building, Welding, New York, NY1997-1999 New York Academy of Art , Drawing, Oil painting, New York City, NY
