ABOUT ARTIST

EDUCATION

1969 summer
Worked for Karl Christianson at The Davenport Museum of Art Pot Shop

1970-1974
Pottery courses at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City

1975-1977
Worked at the Boulder Co-op Pottery Studio in Boulder, Colorado

1977-1981
Part owner of River City Pottery, Davenport, Iowa

1980-1981
Workshop with Ruth Duckworth in Chicago, Illinois

1981-1982
Graduate courses in kiln building and glaze, "Calculation" at the University of Iowa with Bunny MacBride and Chuck Hindes

Workshops with Karen Karnes, Betty Woodman, John Mason, Sandy Simon, Linda Arbuckle, Toshiko Takaezue, and wood fire conferences

1982-2010
Studio at home

2005
Graduate course in majolica techniques/Penland/Linda Arbuckle

EXHIBITIONS

  • Westwind Gallery, Lyons, Colorado
  • Catilin Callling, Village of East Davenport, Iowa
  • Moline Art Gallery, Moline, Illinois
  • Women at Work, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois
  • Studio 15, Davenport, Iowa
  • Quad City Arts, Rock Island, Illinois
  • Artworks, LeClaire, Iowa
  • Rock Island Library(Family Show), Rock Island, Illinois
  • Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa

FAIRS

1977-2009
Beaux Arts Fair, Davenport, Iowa
Dubuque Open Art Fair, Dubuque, Iowa

2004
Boulder Art Fair, Boulder, Colorado

Annual
Muscatine Art Fair, Muscatine, Iowa
Riverssance Art Fair, Davenport, Iowa
Iowa City Thieves Market, Iowa City, Iowa
Riverbank Art Fair, Iowa City, Iowa
Summer Festival of the Arts, Iowa City, Iowa

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1994-1995
Kaleidoscope Children's Program, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois

Children's Art program, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado

1996-2009
Long-term substitute teacher, Bettendorf Community Schools, Bettendorf, Iowa

2000-2007
Wheel and hand-building instructor, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa

MISCELLANEOUS

1998
Scholarship recipient, John Mason Workshop at Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado

2005
Scholarship recipient, Linda Arbuckle Workshop, Penland, North Carolina

Faculty art show, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa

Artist-in-residence, Cape Cod National Seashore, Cape Cod, Massachuesetts

2005-2006
Juror, Davenport One: Sculpture on 2nd, Davenport, Iowa

2006
Vessel Show, Quad City Airport, Moline, Illinois

Truro Center for the Arts Show, Truro, Massachuesetts

2007
Iowa Arts Council Grant, artist-in-residence mural project

Isabel Bloom Foundation Grant for mural project

Artist-in-residence, Buffalo River National Park

2008
Two-person show, Quad City Arts, Rock Island, Illinois

Show of Hands, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa

Artist-in-residence, Acadia National Park

The Acorn Doesn't Fall Too Far From The Tree, Family Show,
Rock Island Library, Rock Island, Ill.

2009
Exhibit,Midcoast i-wireless Center,Moline, Ill.

Artist-in-residence, Great Sand Dunes National Park

Home studio constructed - yurt

2010
Beaux Arts Fair

Venus Envy

Summer of the Arts, Iowa City

Artist in Residency, Hot Springs National Park

Riverssance art fair

Scholarship at Arrowmont School or Fine Arts

Thieves Market - Iowa City, IA