SELECTED SHOWS + EXHIBITIONS
Functional Ceramics 2021
Ohio Designer Craftsmen
Wayne Center for the Arts, 237 S. Walnut St., Wooster, OH
March 15–April 17, 2021
Across the Pond and Back: Training, Making, Influence
NCECA Richmond, VA
March 2020
Louisiana State University
January 2020
Resident Artist Exhibition
Archie Bray Foundation,
June 2018
Ceramiche Nuove, Solo Show
La Bottega del Comune — Cortona, Italy
October 2017
Apprenticelines NCECA ‘15
www.apprenticelines.org
Group Show with Richard Truckle, Mieko Sagasaki, and Lucie Brisson
Noritake
Nagoya, Japan
May 2013
First Works, Solo Show
Tokoname, Japan
May 2010
RESIDENCIES
Artist in Residence
Penland School of Craft - Penland, NC
2018 to 2021
Summer Resident
Archie Bray Foundation - Helena Montana
May - September 2018
Visiting Artist
smART Kinston, Kinston NC
April 2018
Visiting Artist
University of Georgia — Cortona, Italy
February 2017 – December 2017
Resident Artist
STARworks Ceramics — Star, NC
September 2016 – January 2017
TEACHING
Visiting Artist
Appalachian State University — Boone, NC
October 2016
Demonstrations,Slide Lectures, Student critiques and Q & A
CERAMIC TRAINING
Apprentice
Michael Hunt & Naomi Dalglish, Bandana Pottery — Bandana, NC
November 2013 – July 2016
Full Time Apprentice in a production pottery. Intensive on the job training. Dug local clay and processed it. Milled local rock and feldspar for glazes. Assisted in making production work. Loaded and fired kilns. Assisted with workshops and many national exhibitions. During this time developed my own work and began cultivation of my market.
Assistant
Dan Finnegan Pottery — Fredericksburg, VA
January 2011 – October 2013
Assisted long standing studio potter in material processing, wood firings, as well as retail work at many national exhibition. Assisted with kiln building and kiln building workshops. During this time I studied wood-fired slip ware intensively and developed my own work.
Assistant
Winchcombe Pottery — Gloucestershire, England
June 2010 – October 2010
Mixed and processed clay, prepared wood kiln fuel, assisted in wood and gas kiln firings, maintained a clean studio, made the tea and performed gallery duties for a historic production pottery.
Student
Mieko Sagasaki and Richard Truckle — Tokoname, Japan
March 2010 – May 2010
Initiated my education with wheel thrown forms, material processing, wood and gas kiln firing. Assisted with a national gallery exhibition and gained a first hand knowledge of local Japanese ceramics.
EDUCATION
B.A. English
Belmont Abbey — Belmont, NC
1997 – 2001
AWARDS
NCECA 2021 EMERGING ARTIST
REPRESENTATION
Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
Gallery At Flat Rock — Flat Rock, NC
Archie Bray Foundation — Helena, MT
Red Lodge Clay Center — Red Lodge, MT
STIJL/Studio Tashtego — Cold Spring, NY
Gallery 164 — Waynesville, NC
STARworks Gallery — Star, NC