Bio
I am inspired by the built landscape around me and how we interact with it, whether it is where I live or is a place I have traveled to. Handmade signage, architecture, small business storefronts, landscaping, and other human alterations of a place are all intriguing to me. The interaction of these elements and how they make us feel dictates the subject matter of my work. Signs offering repair work, storefronts selling useful products and architecture that shows signs of use and wear all offer an insight into how the everyday works. I believe these things are worth celebrating, as these are what create the fabric of the places in which we live.
My work uses the medium of quilting and found objects to represent the feeling of comfort, tradition and history. Like a handmade quilt, elements of the urban landscape offer people a sense of place, belonging and safety. They both have traces of the hand that created them and are each unique in their own ways. They can be passed down, displayed, altered, mended or discarded. They each represent a part of their community or surroundings and have different meanings for anyone who lives with or around them. I aim to highlight these elements of the world we inhabit. |
Education
2012 BFA, Ceramics, University of Florida Residencies 2016 Pentaculum Week-long residency, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN 2016 Pentaculum Week-long residency, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN 2012 Summer Resident, Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT Professional 2014 Assistant to Thaddeus Erdahl, Penland School of Arts and Crafts, Penand, NC 2013 Assistant to Jamie Walker, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME 2012 Lecturer, Mixed Media: An Interdisciplinary Look at Ceramics, NCECA Conference, Seattle, WA 2011 Summer Studio Assistant, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN Exhibitions 2014 Clay? V Kirkland, Arts Center, Seattle, WA Within: Without, Red Lodge Clay Center Red Lodge, MT 2013 On The Surface, Morean Arts Center St. Petersburg, FL Let There Be Light Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL Friends and Influences Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT 2012 Let There Be Light Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL Nebraska National Collegiate Juried Art Exhibition University of Nebraska Lincoln Cups and Coffee International Juried Cup Show Seattle, WA 2011 To Go, Mendocino Art Center Mendocino, CA 2010 A New Decade of Clay: 2010 National Juried Ceramics Show Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, CA Juror Richard Shaw Awards 2012 NCECA Regina Brown Undergraduate Student Fellowship Carolyn A. Novogrodsky Memorial Award for Artistic Pursuits, University of Florida Awards and Publications 2019 Portland Monthly Magazine, This duo Makes Some of Portland's Most Eye-Catching Signs 2013 500 Figures In Clay, Lark Books, title page 2009 Clay Times magazine, vol. 16, issue 88, page 30, A New Decade of Clay |