About
I grew up in New England in Southern New Hampshire, raised with a love for the land, the snow, and solitude offered by the hush of the woods. This connection to the land followed me from state to state throughout my education. I received my BFA in ceramics from Michigan State University and a post-baccalaureate degree in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. I continued on to the glorious state of Colorado, where I lived and worked for 15 years after moving out West for graduate school at CU, Boulder where I received my MFA.
I started teaching ceramics at Metropolitan State University of Denver in 2009 and have taught at several other schools around the Front Range throughout the years, including CU, Boulder and The University of Denver.
Along with teaching and ceramics, vegetable farming, stewardship of the soil, and food has also been an integral part of my life. Since 2009, each year of teaching has been dovetailed with working on an organic veggie farm from early spring to late fall. There, I worked in the fields and managed the CSA food share program at Red Wagon Farm, who provides local veggies to the Boulder/Denver area. The physical labor of farming is akin to the freedom of woods and flow state that emerges in making, another means to shaking ideas loose and working the problem. Pulling weeds is like thinking to me, each tap root the harvest of an idea.
Starting in the fall of 2022, I am beginning my post as an Associate Professor of Art and Gallery Director at Colorado Mountain College at the Aspen/Carbondale campuses.