Bones
Born in 1958 in New York City; attended Dalton School (1962 - 1976) and studied ceramics and jewelry making with Geraldine King Tam, printmaking, sculpture, poetry, ecology.
Attended Wesleyan University (1976 - 1978) and studied art, film, and geology. After a four year hiatus, resumed college at University of Virginia studying film, poetry, and psychology. Received BA (1984) in Psychology; followed by a year of graduate work at University of Denver in Psychology. Returned to art making (1986) and set up my first studio in my home in Stanardsville Virginia. MFA from James Madison University in 1997.
Taught Ceramics, Sculpture, 2 and 3D Design, and Art Appreciation from 1987 through 2003 at St. Anne's-Belfield School, Piedmont Virginia Community College, James Madison University, Randolph Macon Woman's College, Eastern Mennonite University.
Places
Cedartown, Georgia -- summers in a deep south rural town in the early 60's
Truro, Mass -- a refuge from the grittiness of growing up in New York City... winters, springs and summers in the solace of Nature
Biabou, St. Vincent, West Indies -- my first semester of high school accompanying my mother on her fieldwork, not attending school and instead, seeing the first world through the lens of the third world and becoming a member of the larger human ecosystem
Warwick, New York --knowing Luther Barrett - farrier, dairy farmer, a wise man of few words, rooting my growing interest in the back to the land movement of the mid 70's
Beginning in Istanbul, Turkey instead of going to my college graduation, and heading south along the coast, riding the night bus to Ephesus and beyond. Crossing the Aegean to Chania, Crete. A flight from Athens to London then on to Wales and finding St. David's. Overland across England to the Scottish Highlands by train and on up to Orkney Island. West to Glasgow and over to Northern Ireland coming into Larne, hitch hiking north to Bally Gally and beyond for the last weeks of this solo sojourn. Mostly given a place to stay and the warmth and kinship of others, giving in return garden work or other labor or child care or simply friendship and stories, staying for days or weeks immersed in place and relationship before moving on
Florence, Italy -- the juxtaposition of the international contemporary art scene with the oldness of place and people. Staying at Podere La Casellina, Sylvia and Michaelangelo's agriturismo with babies, cats, and friends around the kitchen hearth in December
Ireland -- exploring the west coast from the Bearra Pennisula of Co. Cork northward to Donegal in September. Learning the colors of the place - silver, green, ochre, wine - and the texture of the rain and the ancient stones
Tuscany, Italy -- returning four years later for an exhibition and the grape harvest at Michaelangelo and Sylvia's again, crushing the grapes by foot, and exploring the hill towns
