Managed studios, assisted instructors with materials preparation, and assisted workshop participants in learning ceramic methods and techniques. Assisted visiting ceramics instructors teaching adult workshops on variety of topics in ceramics, including:
Mark Shapiro, Pouring and Drinking Pots
Michael Connelly, Finding Form and Surface: Atmospheric Effects on Your Work at High/Low Fire
Randy Brodnax, Flashing and Fuming- Salt and Raku
Clay For Seniors, assisted adult students in learning basic ceramic techniques, including: handbuilding, slab-building, wheel- throwing, and glazing.
Participant in work-study exchange and in the following class topics:
Lorna Meaden, Form and Surface: Wheel thrown and altered porcelain, inlaid slip and decorating techniques, Cone 10 Soda firing.
Andy Brayman, Alternative Ceramic Techniques: Mold-making, Slip casting, Custom tool fabrication, Laser print transfer decals
Ceramics Studio Assistant, South Glens Falls High School Glens Falls, NY: Spring 2006
Assisted students in learning basic wheel throwing skills and techniques.
Ceramics Instructor, Camp Northwoods, Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, NY: July-August 2005
Taught weekly workshops in clay for youth (K-6) in summer day camp.
Introduced campers to different methods of making, finishing, and firing clay.
Other Experience: Workshops Attended(All 5-6 day workshops, unless noted)
2019 Sugar Maples Center for the Arts, Maplecrest, NY
Jeff Oestreich, Finding Your Vision-altering, faceting, surface decoration
Renee LoPresti, The Multi-layered Surface for Mid-Range firing
2018 Sugar Maples Center for the Arts, Maplecrest, NY
Ben Krupka, Strategies for Making Unique Pots (Salt-firing)
Peters Valley School of Crafts, Layton, NJ
Jennifer Allen, Altered Form and Surface (Keith and Clara Miller Educator Scholarship Recipient)
2017 Sugar Maples Center for the Arts, Maplecrest, NY
Lorna Meaden, Focus on Making
2016 Sugar Maples Center for the Arts, Maplecrest, NY
Jack Troy, Salt of the Earth (Salt-firing)
Gay Smith, Making Lively Pots, Throwing Soft on the Wheel (Soda Firing)
2015 Sugar Maples Center for the Arts, Maplecrest, NY
Suze Lindsay, Throwing, Altering, and Salt firing
Monroe Clayworks, Troy, NY
Chandra deBuse, Sketch and Stretch: Handbuilding and Drawing in Clay (2 day workshop)
2014 Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Julia Galloway, Workshop and Lecture
2012 Collar City Clay Guild Troy, NY
Kristen Kieffer, Altered and Ornamented Class (2 day workshop)
2008 Soda/Salt Firing Workshops, Arts Center, Troy, NY
John Vasquez and Richard Reiner, Making work for Salt Kiln
Exhibitions 2016 Ceramics Alumni Invitational, Ortlip Gallery, Houghton, NY 2007 Houghton College Alumni Exhibition, Ortlip Gallery, Houghton, NY 2006 Journeys in Clay, Greene County Council on the Arts 2006 Graduate Exhibition, College of St. Rose Gallery 2004 Houghton College Senior Exhibition: Walls and Windows 2002-2004 Houghton College Juried Student Exhibition
Organizations 2008-2015 Arts Center of Capital Region, Member, Troy, NY 2006-2015 NSYATA Member (NYS Art Teachers Association) 2018 NCECA Member 2019 NAEA Member
Conferences 2003 NCECA Conference, Indianapolis, IN 2014, 2015 NYSATA Conference, Albany, NY 2016 Florida Heat:Surface Conference, Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL 2018 NCECA Conference, Pittsburgh, PA 2019 NAEA Conference, Boston, MA
Collections
2009 Houghton College Prayer Chapel Commission: Tile Altarpiece
Houghton College Alumni Collection: Salt-fired Jar, and Wood-fired Sushi set (2004), Ewer Descending a Staircase (2006).
Houghton Wesleyan Church and Wesley Chapel, Houghton NY: Communion chalices and plates (2004).