Bio

About
Artist Statement

Professional Experience

2009 to present

Studio Potter at Home studio

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2006-2009

Resident Artist

Black Mountain Center for the Arts Clay Studio

Black Mountain, NC

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2005-2006

Resident Artist

Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts

Asheville, NC

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1998-2001

Production Potter

J&S Beaumont Pottery

Valle Crucis, NC

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Education

2002-2005

University of North Carolina at Asheville

Bachelor of Fine Arts: Ceramics

1998-2001

Appalachian University

Boone, NC

Ceramics, Photography, Art Education

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Teaching Experience

2008-current

Black Mountain Center for the Arts Clay Studio

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2006-2009

Odyssey Center for Ceramic Arts

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2004-

Demonstrations at University of North Carolina at Asheville

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2002-04

Private wheel throwing classes

Black Mountain, NC

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1999-2000

Wheel Throwing Instructor

Valle Crucis, NC

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1999

visiting teacher, wheel and altering

Watauga High School

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Exhibitions

2011

Jackson, MS.  Home Show

Black Mountain Center for the Arts- Student and Teacher Show

2010

Black Mountain Center for the Arts Student and Teacher Show

UNC Asheville Alumni Show

Black Mountain, NC Home Show

Pottery 101- Exhibit with Joy Tanner

2009

-Art in Bloom- Black Mountain, NC

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-Power of the Purse- WNC Women- Grove Park Inn Asheville, NC

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2008

-Solo Show and Sale- Jackson, MS

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-Black Mountain Center for the Arts- Resident Artist Exhibit

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2006

-Solo Show and Sale- Jackson, MS

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-UNCA Alumni and Faculty Show

Center for Craft Creativity and Design

Hendersonville, NC

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-662.16 A Resident Exchange

Resident Exhibit

Odyssey Center for Ceramic Art, Asheville, NC

St. Petersburg Clay Company, St. Petersburg, FL.

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-Strictly Functional Pottery National

Juried by Tom Coleman

Lancaster, PA

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-Roswell Gallery

Resident Artist Exhibition

Atlanta, GA

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-“Skin Deep”

National Juried Exhibition

Juror: Val Cushing

Florence, South Carolina

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2005

-Clingman Café

Hanging Show

Asheville, NC

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-Studio Stroll

Asheville, NC

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-Sky People Gallery

Constant Flux: Resident Artist Exhibition

Asheville, NC

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-Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition

Senior Show

Conversations in Clay

University of North Carolina at Asheville

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-Juried Student Exhibition

Owen Gallery

Asheville, NC

Honorable Mention in Ceramics

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2004-05

-Gallery Minerva

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2004

-Cup Show

NCECA

Indiana, Indianapolis

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2003

-Juried Student Exhibition

Owen Gallery

Asheville, NC

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-Student/Faculty Exhibition

Invitational

Black Mountain Center for the Arts

Black Mountain, NC

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-SECA, Multimedia Exhibition

Charlotte, NC

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-Sourwood Festival

Black Mountain, NC

 

 

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Publications

500 Pitchers, Lark Books, 2006

 

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Galleries

Pottery 101- Salisbury, NC

Black Mountain Center for the Arts- Black Mountain, NC