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
