Biography
My first experience with ceramics involved rolling marbles from the red clay sub-soil of our Wisconsin farm when I was about five years old. Attempts to bake them in the wood stove were not notably successful.
I have a BA in Art and Mathematics from Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, an MFA-Ceramics from the University of Oregon in Eugene. I taught pottery and sculpture at the UO Craft Center for 14 years, and spent three years throwing production pottery on contract for another studio. I started Off-Center Ceramics in 1993, selling my own wheel-thrown and hand-painted stoneware at the Eugene Saturday Market.
