PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Guest Artist in Residence The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania winter 2010

Artist in Residence and Instructor
Pottery Northwest, Seattle, Washington
Currently

Professor Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Spring/ Summer 2009

  • Wheelworking
  • Summer Soda Fire Workshop
  • Altered Forms

Instructor Harvard for the Arts Ceramics, Cambridge, Massachusettes- Fall 2008

Artist in Residence and Instructor, Mudflat Studios, Somerville, Massachusettes- Fall 2008 course, and currently through August- Artist in Residence

International Residency Ceramics Workshop, Berlin Germany, June/ July 2008

Visiting Assistant Professor Ohio University, Athens Ohio- 2007 to Present

  • 3D Studies
  • Concepts
  • Beginning Wheel Throwing
  • Intermediate Wheel Throwing
  • Intermediate Hand building
  • Advanced Ceramics 

Artist in Residence The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana 2007-2005

Professional Development- refining work and pursuing gallery representation 

Instructor
- adult community classes, firing class kilns, mixing glazes

  • Intermediate Wheel Throwing
  • Advanced Wheel Throwing
  • Intermediate Hand Building

Community Building Events-

  • Short term classes for Children and Seniors
  • Assisting with silent/ live auctions
  • Attending to visiting artists during the International Symposium
  • Raku firing all day for the kids Mother’s Day Event. 
  • Tour Guide of historic facility and working artist studios, for kids and adults
  • Setting up multiple group shows in a variety of spaces

International Residency
San Bao Ceramic Art Institute, Jingdezhen, China, May/June 2005

  • Juried Show Award: Taking Measure II,
    An Exhibition of Ceramic Art of American Students

Graduate Teaching Pennsylvania State University 2005-2004

Professor of Record, Summer Beginning Ceramics for non-art majors

Professor of Record, Fall Beginning Ceramics for non-art majors,

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spring beginning wheel for majors

Instructor Jamul Elementary School, 2002

  • Spring quarter after school ceramics class, mixed grades

Graduate Studio Assistant Pennsylvania State University 2004-2003

  • Stocking glaze room, maintaining raw materials, mixing glazes, firing class kilns

Museum Internship Pennsylvania State University, Palmer Art Museum 2003

  • Each week working with a different job with in museum Structure, co-ordinated by Registrar- Curator of Education, Preparator, Exhibitions Designer, Public Relations and Grant development, 

Lab Technician Mesa Community College, San Diego, California, 2002

  • Huge organizational projects, mixing glazes, firing kilns, etc.

Studio Assistant San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 2002

  • Firing class kilns, reclaiming clay, general organization

Potter’s Studio Assistant

Peter Brondz, functional production potter, Bird Creek, Alaska, 2002-2001

  • Loading kilns, mixing clay, cleaning gallery/ studio, studio maintenance, makingmy own work for gallery sales, interacting with local customes

Kris Bliss, Anchorage, Alaska, 2001-2000

  • Making piece work, glazing, loading kilns, general organization

Symposiums/ Conferences

Figure Symposium, Guldagergaard International Ceramics Research Center July 2008

NCECA (National Council for Education on the Ceramic Arts) Membership 2007-2000

 

 





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