Education
M.F.A. in Ceramics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2003
B.A. in Theater, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY 1996 summa cum laude
Selected Teaching History
Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
Introduction to Ceramics
2-Dimensional Foundations
University of Michigan
Tools, Materials & Processes: Clay
Advanced Ceramics
Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI
Non-Western Ceramic Art History
Language of Art
Advanced Drawing
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Introduction to Ceramics
Selected Professional History
Artists Residencies
International Ceramic Research Centre, Guldagergaard, Denmark 2007
International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary 2007
Firestation Artists Studios, Dublin, Ireland 2006
Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI 2005-6
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, 2002
Guest Lectures
"Strange Bodies", University of Iowa School of Art & Art History 2008
"Desiring the Transformative Body", Morehead State University Art Department 2008
"Process and Problem Solving", Guldagergaard, Denmark 2007
"Ceramic Technology Through History", Art & Design Perspectives, University of Michigan 2005
Visiting Artist, Summer Nights at the Henry Ford Museum 2005
"Environmental Ethics in Ceramic Art", NCECA, Indianapolis, IN 2004
Selected Exhibitions
2008
Response to Fear, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
Avatar, East Central College Gallery, Union, MO
2007
Teach, Art, Make: Faculty at MSU, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead, KY
International Ceramic Museum Editors Association Emerging Artists Exhibition, Fuping, China
2006
8 Fluid Ounces, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Faculty Exhibit, Klemm Gallery, Siena Heights University
2005
Cup: The Intimate Object IV, Charlie Cummings Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
Composite and Complement, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University
Heigh-ho, Hi-lo, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2004
Nomad's Land, Warren Robbins Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
We Make it Work, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
2003
Relative Difference, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
2002
Dissolving Possibility, Installation at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, UK
Plagued by Doubt, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan
Collections
International Ceramics Museum, Fuping, China
International Ceramic Studio, Kesckemet, Hungary
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, UK