Contemplation, and the expression of such, accompanies the everyday tea.
- 2013 Yunomi Invitational Statement
Twenty-three years ago, our family invested in x-country skis, and a plan which offered our son an up-grade every year, in size, for $10 a year, until he reached adulthood. We took lessons, skied in the metro parks, and around the house. Over the years, I inherited everyone else’s cast-offs, since I was the only one still skiing. It has been good cold weather exercise, and has helped me to love the winter even more, and it gives me the time to think, and put answers to problems----one of which was: how to marry maiolica with the yunomi aesthetic.
We live on what was once an old lakebed. Every snowy day I would put on my skis and tramp out over the crusty driveway, and shove off down the cornfield, letting the flatness, and the patterns of corn stubble, and the trail of the skis calm me. Every day I’d note the changing patterns of light and shadow on the snow, the sparseness of color and the cleanness of form, the coolness of air breathed in. Flat land, white snow, grey sky, brown corn stubble. Horizon. Everyday. Yunomi. Maiolica.
EDUCATION
1968
M.F.A., printmaking; Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
1966
B.F.A., cum laude; Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio
1970-2008 additional studies:
ceramic history; Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI
ceramic workshops through Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI;
Wooster, Ohio’s Functional Pottery Workshops;
Michigan Potters’ Association;
Toledo, Ohio, Potters’ Guild
Ann Arbor Potters’ Guild
Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, Connecticut
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
1973
Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina: summer session in photo-etching; August, 1993: Ceramic Overview
1972
student of Alice Matthews, weaver, Detroit, Michigan
1970
student of Peter Pettus, potter, Alexandria, Virginia
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007
Presenter at the Wooster functional Clay Workshop, Wooster, OH
ongoing: maiolica glaze and decoration workshops
2001
Instructor, Ann Arbor Potters’ Guild, Michigan
1996
Visiting artist, Whitmer High School, Toledo, Ohio
1994
Ceramics instructor, Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan; beginning, intermediate, and independent study students
1992-1993
Ceramics instructor, continuing education, Lourdes College, Sylvania, Ohio
1973-1979
Adjunct faculty member, ceramics; Western Connecticut State College, Danbury, Connecticut
taught all aspects of ceramics; oversaw independent study students in ceramics; taught cloth sculpture class and the ceramics/weaving section of crafts classes ceramics instructor Washington Art Gallery, Washington Depot, CT; designed reworking of ceramic studio layout
1975-1976
Ceramics instructor; Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, Connecticut; council member, 1977-1979; studio assistant, 1975-1979
ADDITIONAL TEACHING
1997
Director, instructor, The Pottery Barn, 577 Foundation, Perrysburg, Ohio
1987-1998
Children’s ceramics teacher at my studio, Ottawa Lake, Michigan; and at The Pottery Barn, 577 Foundation, Perrysburg, Ohio
1990, 1993, 1996
Ceramics teacher, Winterim Clay Class (grades 9 - 12), at the Pottery Barn, 577 Foundation, Perrysburg, Ohio: under the aegis of Maumee Valley Country Day School, Toledo, Ohio
Taught pottery to 14 students, all day, for one month, exploring what it’s like to be a potter; included three field trips: a tile class at Pewabic Pottey in Detroit, combined with a tour of the tile work in the Detroit People Mover Stations, and work/visits to two professional potters’ studios in Ohio and Michigan
1976-1977
Children’s ceramics; Westover Summer Arts Program, Middlebury, Connecticut
1971-1972
One of the founding teachers of the Upland Hills (Farm) School, Oxford, Michigan
Developed a photography, and a women’s studies course, in addition to regular teaching duties
1970-1971
English tutor; Chicano English Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
1969
Instructor in printmaking for children; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1968-1969
Elementary art and music teacher; Chippewa Valley Public School District, Mount Clemens, Michigan
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1973-Present
Professional potter, working with both functional and sculptural forms; studio at Toledo Potters’ Guild, 1980-84; organized TPG workshops with nationally known potters; present business, since 1985, in a studio I helped construct in Ottawa Lake, MI.
DEMONSTRATIONS & WORKSHOPS
2007
Michigan Mud, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit
2004
Henry Ford Comm. College; Adrian College workshops
2003
Detroit Institute of Art, First Friday, maiolica demonstration,
2002
Michigan Mud, Western MI, Alegan
2000
Hands-on maiolica glaze workshops at the Potter's Guilds in Ann Arbor, MI, and Wooster, OH
1991
Pottery Workshop presenter, Monroe County Community College, Monroe, Michigan
1989
Raku Presentation with Edith Franklin, Adrian College, Adrian
Demonstrator at Michigan Mud, Henry Ford Community College
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS
2008
Yunomi Show II, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2004
The Box Show, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2003
21st Century Ceramics in the US and Canada; CCAD, Columbus, OH
2002
Santa Fe Clay; Contemporary Maiolica; NM
Strictly Functional Pottery National; Market House Craft Center, Ephrata, PA
2001
Contemporary Maiolica; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock
2000
Focus on Function;U of M Nat. Ceramics Biennial, Minn, MN
1998
Chef John Folse Culinary School Exhibition, Nicholls State University, Louisiana; purchase award
Strictly Functional Pottery National; Market House Craft Center, Ephrata, PA
1996, 2000, 2003, 2007
Two person shows at the American Gallery, Sylvania, Ohio
1992
“Responses to Children’s Art”; Adrian College, Michigan
1991, 1993
“Women in the Arts”; Images Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
1991
“Earthly Delights”; Michigan Potters’ Association Invitational, Galleria Officenter, Southfield, Michigan
1986
“Connecting: Women Artists”; Toledo, Ohio
1982-1985, 1991, 1992, 2002
Michigan Potters’ Association’s Annual Juried Show
1981
National Cone Box Show; Purdue University, Indiana
1977-1978
Connecticut Craft Professional’s Spring Market
1975-79
Guild of Connecticut Craftsmen’s Annual Juried Show
Current: two pieces are included in the ongoing show of professionally outstanding women ceramists: “The Ceramic Collection”, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven
AWARDS & RELATED ACTIVITIES
2008
One tile included in Lark Books 500 Tiles
2005
Two face mugs included in Lark Books 500 Cups
1998
Majolica pottery is included in The Best of Pottery, I, and II, selected by Jonathan Fairbanks and Angela Fina; Quarry Books, 1996, 1998
1995
A photograph of a smoked, wirecut pot is in Jane Perry-man’s book, Smoke-fired Pottery, A & C Black, 1995
1992
One of three Monroe County, Michigan, potters who sent work to Japan in an exchange program through Monroe’s sister city of Hofu
1991
A photograph of one of the pieces for the “boy/dog”series, with a brief statement, is included in Richard Zakin’s book: Ceramics, Mastering the Craft, Chilton,
1990
One of the “Garden Notebook” sculptures is included in R. Zakin’s Hand-Formed Ceramics, Chilton, 1995; a photo of recent maiolica work appears in Robin Hopper's update of his Functional Pottery
- 2013 Yunomi Invitational Statement
Twenty-three years ago, our family invested in x-country skis, and a plan which offered our son an up-grade every year, in size, for $10 a year, until he reached adulthood. We took lessons, skied in the metro parks, and around the house. Over the years, I inherited everyone else’s cast-offs, since I was the only one still skiing. It has been good cold weather exercise, and has helped me to love the winter even more, and it gives me the time to think, and put answers to problems----one of which was: how to marry maiolica with the yunomi aesthetic.
We live on what was once an old lakebed. Every snowy day I would put on my skis and tramp out over the crusty driveway, and shove off down the cornfield, letting the flatness, and the patterns of corn stubble, and the trail of the skis calm me. Every day I’d note the changing patterns of light and shadow on the snow, the sparseness of color and the cleanness of form, the coolness of air breathed in. Flat land, white snow, grey sky, brown corn stubble. Horizon. Everyday. Yunomi. Maiolica.
EDUCATION
1968
M.F.A., printmaking; Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
1966
B.F.A., cum laude; Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio
1970-2008 additional studies:
ceramic history; Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI
ceramic workshops through Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI;
Wooster, Ohio’s Functional Pottery Workshops;
Michigan Potters’ Association;
Toledo, Ohio, Potters’ Guild
Ann Arbor Potters’ Guild
Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, Connecticut
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
1973
Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina: summer session in photo-etching; August, 1993: Ceramic Overview
1972
student of Alice Matthews, weaver, Detroit, Michigan
1970
student of Peter Pettus, potter, Alexandria, Virginia
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007
Presenter at the Wooster functional Clay Workshop, Wooster, OH
ongoing: maiolica glaze and decoration workshops
2001
Instructor, Ann Arbor Potters’ Guild, Michigan
1996
Visiting artist, Whitmer High School, Toledo, Ohio
1994
Ceramics instructor, Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan; beginning, intermediate, and independent study students
1992-1993
Ceramics instructor, continuing education, Lourdes College, Sylvania, Ohio
1973-1979
Adjunct faculty member, ceramics; Western Connecticut State College, Danbury, Connecticut
taught all aspects of ceramics; oversaw independent study students in ceramics; taught cloth sculpture class and the ceramics/weaving section of crafts classes ceramics instructor Washington Art Gallery, Washington Depot, CT; designed reworking of ceramic studio layout
1975-1976
Ceramics instructor; Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, Connecticut; council member, 1977-1979; studio assistant, 1975-1979
ADDITIONAL TEACHING
1997
Director, instructor, The Pottery Barn, 577 Foundation, Perrysburg, Ohio
1987-1998
Children’s ceramics teacher at my studio, Ottawa Lake, Michigan; and at The Pottery Barn, 577 Foundation, Perrysburg, Ohio
1990, 1993, 1996
Ceramics teacher, Winterim Clay Class (grades 9 - 12), at the Pottery Barn, 577 Foundation, Perrysburg, Ohio: under the aegis of Maumee Valley Country Day School, Toledo, Ohio
Taught pottery to 14 students, all day, for one month, exploring what it’s like to be a potter; included three field trips: a tile class at Pewabic Pottey in Detroit, combined with a tour of the tile work in the Detroit People Mover Stations, and work/visits to two professional potters’ studios in Ohio and Michigan
1976-1977
Children’s ceramics; Westover Summer Arts Program, Middlebury, Connecticut
1971-1972
One of the founding teachers of the Upland Hills (Farm) School, Oxford, Michigan
Developed a photography, and a women’s studies course, in addition to regular teaching duties
1970-1971
English tutor; Chicano English Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
1969
Instructor in printmaking for children; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1968-1969
Elementary art and music teacher; Chippewa Valley Public School District, Mount Clemens, Michigan
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1973-Present
Professional potter, working with both functional and sculptural forms; studio at Toledo Potters’ Guild, 1980-84; organized TPG workshops with nationally known potters; present business, since 1985, in a studio I helped construct in Ottawa Lake, MI.
DEMONSTRATIONS & WORKSHOPS
2007
Michigan Mud, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit
2004
Henry Ford Comm. College; Adrian College workshops
2003
Detroit Institute of Art, First Friday, maiolica demonstration,
2002
Michigan Mud, Western MI, Alegan
2000
Hands-on maiolica glaze workshops at the Potter's Guilds in Ann Arbor, MI, and Wooster, OH
1991
Pottery Workshop presenter, Monroe County Community College, Monroe, Michigan
1989
Raku Presentation with Edith Franklin, Adrian College, Adrian
Demonstrator at Michigan Mud, Henry Ford Community College
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS
2008
Yunomi Show II, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2004
The Box Show, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
2003
21st Century Ceramics in the US and Canada; CCAD, Columbus, OH
2002
Santa Fe Clay; Contemporary Maiolica; NM
Strictly Functional Pottery National; Market House Craft Center, Ephrata, PA
2001
Contemporary Maiolica; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock
2000
Focus on Function;U of M Nat. Ceramics Biennial, Minn, MN
1998
Chef John Folse Culinary School Exhibition, Nicholls State University, Louisiana; purchase award
Strictly Functional Pottery National; Market House Craft Center, Ephrata, PA
1996, 2000, 2003, 2007
Two person shows at the American Gallery, Sylvania, Ohio
1992
“Responses to Children’s Art”; Adrian College, Michigan
1991, 1993
“Women in the Arts”; Images Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
1991
“Earthly Delights”; Michigan Potters’ Association Invitational, Galleria Officenter, Southfield, Michigan
1986
“Connecting: Women Artists”; Toledo, Ohio
1982-1985, 1991, 1992, 2002
Michigan Potters’ Association’s Annual Juried Show
1981
National Cone Box Show; Purdue University, Indiana
1977-1978
Connecticut Craft Professional’s Spring Market
1975-79
Guild of Connecticut Craftsmen’s Annual Juried Show
Current: two pieces are included in the ongoing show of professionally outstanding women ceramists: “The Ceramic Collection”, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven
AWARDS & RELATED ACTIVITIES
2008
One tile included in Lark Books 500 Tiles
2005
Two face mugs included in Lark Books 500 Cups
1998
Majolica pottery is included in The Best of Pottery, I, and II, selected by Jonathan Fairbanks and Angela Fina; Quarry Books, 1996, 1998
1995
A photograph of a smoked, wirecut pot is in Jane Perry-man’s book, Smoke-fired Pottery, A & C Black, 1995
1992
One of three Monroe County, Michigan, potters who sent work to Japan in an exchange program through Monroe’s sister city of Hofu
1991
A photograph of one of the pieces for the “boy/dog”series, with a brief statement, is included in Richard Zakin’s book: Ceramics, Mastering the Craft, Chilton,
1990
One of the “Garden Notebook” sculptures is included in R. Zakin’s Hand-Formed Ceramics, Chilton, 1995; a photo of recent maiolica work appears in Robin Hopper's update of his Functional Pottery
