After working part time in ceramics while I pursued a professional career in international relations, I became a full-time artist many years ago. It was a significant career change, with the accompanying joys and challenges of launching into a completely different way of life. In addition to my own studio practice and active membership in a ceramics co-op, until recently I taught wheel throwing and was the ceramics studio manager at a local continuing education arts institution. I am now partner and co-director of a new studio that provides studio space to 2D, ceramics, fiber, jewelry and other artists and helps emerging ceramic artists transition from a school environment to working on their own. I’m a Denver native. I have lived in Chile and New York and participated in an artist's residency in Japan, among other travels.