SELECTED ACTIVITY    
   
 
EDUCATION    

1987

  MFA (Master of Fine Arts) – Ceramics, Tyler School of Art of Temple University, PA.
1980   BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) – Ceramic Sculpture, Montclair State University, NJ.
     
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1989-2005   Adjunct Professor, Montclair State University, NJ, Ceramics – graduate and undergraduate levels.
1994-2002   Adjunct Associate Professor, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, NY, Ceramics – beginning and advanced levels.
1989-2000  

Faculty, Parsons School of Design, Product Design Department,  New York City, NY, Ceramics – beginning & advanced throwing, earthenware, plaster mold and model making.

1987-1992   Faculty, Interlochen Center For The Arts, MI Ceramic Department Head, taught high school sculpture and throwing.
     
THE BUSINESS OF ART
2009-2011   Curator, “Art in Town Hall”, Taos, NM, Ongoing public art quarterly exhibitions.
2006-2011   Designer, web sites, marketing materials.
2006-2011   Public Relations & Marketing, developed strategies and materials.
2008-2009   Grant Writer, Taos Clay (2006), Taos Artist Organization.
2000   Consultant, Nancy Green designer, Industrial design of glazes for tableware, NYC.
1992   Curator, Diverse Perspectives: Six Ceramic Artists, Bucks County Community College, PA, Exhibition in conjunction with the 1992 NCECA conference in Philadelphia.
     
ARTIST
2005-2011   Studio Artist, Taos, NM.
2008-2010   Taos Studio Tour, Artist on Tour.
2007   Ranchos de Taos/Talpa Studio Tour Artist on Tour, Taos, NM.
1992-2005   Studio Artist, Brooklyn, NY.
2003   Artist Presenter, Extruder Workshop, Summit Art Center.
1997   Collaborator with Flower Arrangers, Ltd., NYC.
1994   Resident, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Maine.
     
EXHIBITIONS
2010   Clay & Glass: familiar materials used in unfamiliar ways, two woman show, Stables Gallery, Taos, NM.
2009   East Meets West-Raton Joins Taos, Stables Gallery, Taos, NM.
2007   Artists off the Rim, Stables Gallery, Taos, NM.
2007   Local Color VII, Gallery on the Green, Taos Country Club, Taos, NM.
2006   Taos Clay Gallery, Taos, NM, .
2003  

Extruded Ceramics, Summit Art Center, NJ.

1996   San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, 1996
1995   Wall Sculpture, Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn campus.
1992-1993   New Jersey Project Invitational: A Celebration of Women Artists at New Jersey Colleges, traveling exhibition throughout New Jersey Colleges.
1992   Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Awards, Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.
     
NON-PROFIT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
2010-2011   PFLAG Taos, NM, board member, secretary.
2008-2009       Taos Artist Organization-TAO, NM, Board member, public relations, newsletter blog editor, office director.
2010-2011   Governing Council, Taos Charter School, GC board member, treasurer
     
OTHER EXPERIENCE
2008-2011   Writer, Articles/Letters, Taos News, Taos, NM - “Wait…what about the Arts?”; “The women [artists] that have gone before me”; “Taos the perfect home for a visual art center”; “ A light bulb went off in my head…the Super Bowl caused this crisis”; “Two young, vibrant, talented men died in Taos”,
2006   Lecturer, “Women in Crafts”, lecture, Women in Medicine Conference, CA.