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As a child, I talked with bunnies and dressed up the dog. I observed
dragonflies as they settled on the end of my fishing pole - confident
that act fixed my chances of catching a fish. I spent hours exposing
the city of ants which had been built in the rock bed by the front
porch. I watched the ants scurry to protect their young and bury
their dead. Maybe
my life has not changed so much. As
an adult, I spend hours raking fallen fruit or gardening with my
face close to the ground. I
am awed by the natural world and captivated by the universe that
lies beneath our feet: a simple arrangement - the drama of transformation.
I have learned
essential lessons by observing the transient nature of things.
My reverence
for nature is apparent in my work. This series began from the need
to resolve the base of an architectural form. That initial small
chunk of earth captivated me, evolving into a core, a specimen,
a marker. This work sets out to isolate a found still life or a
simple idea in an effort to bring the “land” to the
viewer.
Through my work
I explore the simple and the sacred, referring to cycles that come
with changes in seasons and weather and life. I work slowly, layering
materials, techniques and content in an effort to balance formal
and personal, conscious that every decision - every “mark”
must further the “plot”.
This work is
constructed using Earthenware clay and finished with stains, slips,
glazes and faux gold leaf.
Education
MFA, Art Studio, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 1990.
Ceramics, with an emphasis in Drawing. Competitive Graduate Award,
1986 - 1987.
Exhibitions –
selected
“Schmidt Art Center” Southwestern Illinois College,
Belleville, Illinois, 2005.
“Teapots: Object to Subject”, Leslie Ferrin Curator,
Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, 2004.
“Grand Opening Exhibition”, Invitational, Chesterfield
Arts, Chesterfield, Missouri, 2004.
“Fontbonne
University Art Gallery”, Invitational, St. Louis, Missouri,
2003.
“Tea Anyone?
The Donna Moog Teapot Collection”, The Racine Art Museum,
Racine Wisconsin, 2003.
“Southern
Illinois Artists”, Juried, Cedarhurst Museum, Award, Mount
Vernon, Illinois, 2003.
“A New Era of Sculpture,” International Mini Sculpture
Exhibition, Taiwan, 2002 – 2003.
“32.33.02”,
Invitational New Wagner Gallery, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville,
2002.
Solo Show, XEN
Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, 2002.
“SOFA”
- "Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art", Represented
by Ferrin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois,
2000 and 1998; Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida, 1997.
teaching
Experience - current
Adjunct Faculty, Art & Design, Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville, 1990 to present.
Professional History
and Honors – selected
Coordinator, ARTEAST, “The Edwardsville – Alton Studio
Tour”, 1998 to present.
Executive Board Member, St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers & Accountants
for the Arts, current.
Board Member, Madison County Arts Council, current.
Member, Community Arts Access Regranting Panel, 2003.
Board Member, Friends of Art, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville,
current.
“Art & Air”, Webster Groves, Missouri, invited artist,
First Place, Ceramics, 2004.
2003 Women of Distinction Award Recipient. Sponsored by the YWCA
of Alton, Illinois.
Madison County Arts Council Project Grant Recipient, 1999 through
2002.
Public Collections
Tenet, Forest Park Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
The Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin
Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, Illinois
St. Louis Public Art Collection, Sponsored by the St. Louis Art
Fair, St. Louis, Missouri
Publications
Ceramics Monthly, “25 Select 25”, December 2001, PP
77-79.
Teapots Transformed, Exploration of an Object, 2000 p. 42.
The Best of Pottery, Rockport Publishers, 1998 p. 50.
Ceramics Monthly, "Up Front", December 1997, p.14.
Art St. Louis, "Close-Up", summer 1996, PP 12-14.
The Best of Pottery, Rockport Publishers, 1996, PP 16 and 27.
American Craft, "Portfolio", October - November 1995.
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