ABOUT

As an undergraduate Art Education major I discovered the ceramics studio and became completely enamored with clay, the potter's wheel and vessels. My early formal training through graduate school was as a ceramicist. During graduate school I began to work on more sculptural forms, and eventually I quit the container altogether as perhaps a less serious concern. I successfully exhibited my work on a national level. After I began teaching I pursued painting, and mixed media sculpture. For about fifteen years I did not touch clay at all and taught foundation classes and sculpture. About five years ago I started rediscovering clay media and the joy of making vessels. In returning to the media and the forms that initially attracted me I feel that I have approached them as a sculptor and a painter but with a potters awareness of materials and skill.

EDUCATION

• 1970 B.S. Art Education Edinboro State University
• 1974 M.F.A. Ceramics Alfred University

TEACHING

• 1974 (summer) Visiting Instructor, Philadelphia College of Art
• 1974-76 Instructor, SUNY Albany, Art Department
• 1976-present Professor, Art Department, University of Memphis

HONORS/AWARDS

• 1978 Individual Craftsman Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
• 1987 Spring Research Leave, University of Memphis
• 1990 Edinboro State University, Distinguished Alumni Award
• 1991 Faculty Development Leave, University of Memphis
• 2002 Faculty Development Leave, University of Memphis
• 2016 Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant

WORKSHOP LECTURES

• 1973 Edinboro State University
• 1974 Raku Symposium SUNY Albany
• 1975 Hudson Valley Ceramic Conference
• 1977 Carnegie-Mellon University
• 1978 Art Park, Lewiston, N.Y.
• 1980 University of Mississippi
• 1981 Southeast College Art Association
• 1983 Contemporary Southeastern Clay Artists, Univ. of Mississippi
• 1993' Appalachian Center for Crafts
• 2004 Southeastern Louisiana University
• 2008 Rhodes College
• 2011 Juried Bi-State Exhibition, Meridian Mississippi Museum of Art

INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

• 1972 Pottery Invitational, Erie, PA.
• 1972 Supermud Invitational, Penn State
• 1973 Alfred Graduate Invitational, Brockport State University
• 1974 State Celebration of the Arts, Fredonia, N.Y.
• 1976 Concepts Clay, Central Michigan University
• 1977 Regional Invitational, Memphis Artist/Craftsman Association
• 1977 Combined Faculty Show, Memphis Brooks Museum
• 1977 ETC Gallery, Memphis, TN,
• 1978 Exchange Show, Memphis, TN.
• 1978 100 Teapots, Thiel College
• 1979 Faculty Exhibition, University of Memphis
• 1979 Exchange Show, Memphis, TN.
• 1979 Edinboro National Invitational, Edinboro University
• 1980 Functional Ceramics, Purdue University
• 1980 Up Front Exhibition, Memphis, TN.
• 1980 Invitational Exhibition, Carnegie-Mellon University
• 1981 Southeast College Art Association, Oxford, MS
• 1981 Southern Monumental Invitational, University of Memphis
• 1982 Distinguished Alumni Exhibition, Edinboro University
• 1982 The Artisans Gallery, Great Neck, N.Y.
• 1983 Faculty Exhibition, University of Memphis
• 1983 Contemporary Southeastern Clay Artists, Univ. of Mississippi
• 1983 Emerging Talent, N.C.E.C.A. conference
• 1984 Social Commentary Exhibition, University of Memphis
• 1986 The Atlanta Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA.
• 1986 G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery. Baltimore, MD.
• 1986 The Craftsman's Gallery, Scarsdale, N.Y.
• 1987 Invitational Exhibition, Millersville University
• 1987 The Artisans Gallery, Great Neck, N.Y.
• 1987 American House Gallery, Tenafly, N.J.
• 1988 National Ceramic Invitational, Ringling College of Art
• 1988 The Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.
• 1989 Inaugural Exhibition, Memphis Center for Contemporary Art
• 1989 Four Alfred Graduates, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL.
• 1989 Dimensions Gallery, Boca Raton, Fl.
• 1989 The Art of Tennessee Craft, Nashville, TN.
• 1990 A Decade of Craft, Christie's East, NYC, N.Y.
• 1999 Wood Works, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR.
• 2000 Memphis Arts In The Park Festival, Invitational
• 2001 Ornamental Metals Museum, Memphis, TN.
• 2002 Faculty Exhibition, University of Memphis
• 2005 Tide to the Vernacular, Project Creo, St. Petersburg Art Center
• 2006 Faculty Exhibition, University of Memphis
• 2006 Assemblation, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
• 2011 Pseudonym, Gallery 56, Memphis, TN.
• 2013 Hanging Participles, Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN
• 2013 The Unicorn Show, Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN
• 2013 It Came From Memphis, Delta State University
• 2013 Faculty Exhibition , University of Memphis
• 2014 L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN
• 2015 It's Good to be the King, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN
• 2015 TN Holiday Presentation, TN State Residence, Nashville, TN
• 2016 Ten Year Anniversary Show, L. Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN

ONE & TWO MAN EXHIBITIONS

• 1975 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rensselaer, NY
• 1976 SUNY Albany
• 1977 National Bank of Commerce, Memphis, TN.
• 1978 LeMoyne Owen College, Memphis, TN.
• 1979 Memphis State University
• 1979 Southwestern University, Memphis, TN.
• 1980 University of Mississippi, Oxford, Ms.
• 1981 Austin Peay University
• 1982 Union Planters Gallery, Memphis, TN.
• 1983 Carriage Gallery, Memphis, TN.
• 1986 The Pottery Place, Memphis, TN.
• 1990 Albers Gallery, Memphis, TN.
• 1992 Schneider, Blumh, Loeb Gallery, Chicago, IL.
• 1993 Tennessee Tech University
• 2000 Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery, Nashville, TN.
• 2002 Delta Axis Gallery, Memphis, TN.
• 2008 Clough Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
• 2011 Sticks and Stones, Gallery 56, Memphis, TN
• 2013 Rug Burns, Gallery 56, Memphis, TN

JURIED EXHIBITIONS

• 1970 Crafts Guild Spring Show, Pittsburgh, PA.
• 1970 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA.
• 1972 Portsmouth National, Portsmouth, VA.
• 1974 Pennsylvania Crafts '74, Harrisburg, PA.
• 1974 Southern Tier National, Corning, NY.
• 1976 Arizona National. Scottsdale, AZ.
• 1977 Lake Superior International, Duluth, MN.
• 1977 Mississippi River Crafts Show, Memphis, TN.
• 1977 Marietta Crafts National, Marietta, OH.
• 1978 Young Americans: Clay and Glass, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC
• 1980 Crafts, Drawing, Small Sculpture, Little Rock AR.
• 1980 Ceramics Southeast, Athens, GA.
• 1982 Crafts, Drawing, Small Sculpture, Little Rock, AR.
• 1982 The ACE Fair, Baltimore, MD.
• 1982 The Centennial Park Fair, Nashville, TN.
• 1983 The Mid South Crafts Fair, Memphis, TN.
• 1983 The Boardwalk Art Festival, Virginia Beach, VA.
• 1983 The Gum Tree Festival, Tupelo, MS.
• 1983 The Centennial Park Fair, Nashville, TN.
• 1983 Tennessee Valley Commission, Chattanooga, TN.
• 1984 The Centennial Park Fair, Nashville, TN.
• 1984 The Philadelphia Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA.
• 1985 The Washington Craft Show, Washington, DC.
• 1986 The ACE Fair, West Springfield, MA.
• 1986 The ACE Fair, Baltimore, MD.
• 1987 The ACE Fair, West Springfield, MA.
• 1988 The ACE Fair, West Springfield, MA.
• 1989 The Gum Tree Festival, Tupelo, MS.
• 1989 The Centennial Park Festival, Nashville, TN.
• 1990 The Gum Tree Festival, Tupelo, MS.
• 1991 Arts in the Park, Memphis, TN.
• 1992 Music Fest Art Fair, Jackson, Ms.
• 1992 Boston Mills Arts Festival, Boston Mills, OH.
• 1992 57th Street Art Fair, Chicago, IL.
• 1992 Art in the Square, Madison, WS.
• 1992 Arts in the Park, Memphis, TN.
• 1998 Arts in the Park, special projects, Memphis, TN.
• 1998 The Delta Annual, Little Rock, AR. (honorable mention)
• 1998 The Mid States Art Exhibition, Evansville, IN.
• 2000 The Delta Annual, Little Rock, AR.
• 2001 Arts in the Park, Memphis, TN. (1st place special projects) Juror- Shamin Momin
• 2002 Water Tower Annual, Louisville, KY.
• 2002 The Delta Annual, Little Rock, AR. (honorable mention) Juror- James Barness
• 2002 Association for Visual Artists National Annual, Chattanooga, TN. Juror- Robert Stackhouse
• 2002 Arts In the Park, juried exhibit, Memphis, TN.
• 2003 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts International, Summit, NJ Juror- Anne Umland
• 2004 Southern States Sculpture Exhibition, Southeastern Louisiana Univ. Juror- Ken Little
• 2005 The Delta Annual, Little Rock, AR. (honorable mention) Juror-Rodger Shimomura
• 2005 MAX 2005 Exhibition, Memphis, TN, juror-David Moos
• 2006 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, Juror-Cheryl Brutyan
• 2006 The Class of '06, Lantana Projects, Memphis, TN.
• 2007 Perspectives, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN., Juror-Michael Rooks
• 2011 Delta Annual, Little Rock, AR
• 2012 Delta Annual, Little Rock, AR
• 2013 Delta Annual, Little Rock, AR
• 2014 TAC Centennial Park Show, Nashville, TN
• 2015 TAC Centennial Park Show, Nashville, TN