EDUCATION

 

2019- 2021 - Master of Fine Art in Applied Craft and Design at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), Portland, OR 97209

2013- 2018 - Bachelor of Fine Art in Sculpture at The University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA), Undergraduate Research Scholar distinction, Asheville, NC 28804

2009- 2013 - Carrboro High School graduate, Carrboro, NC 27516

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

June 2023- present - Ceramics Teacher at Payne Street Pottery, Louisville, KY

• One-time wheel-throwing and 6-week ceramic session classes

• Classes includes instruction on clay preparation, wheel-thrown, hand-building, and glazing (beginning and intermediate) and studio cleanliness/etiquette 

 

June 2022 - June 2023 Co-designer, facilitator, and instructor of Queer Cat 2023: An LGBTQIA+ Woodfire Experience, East Creek Art, Willamina, Oregon

• Included a full twelve months of program development, press releases, volunteer-coordination, and fundraising

• Over fifty new and seasoned queer artists came to experience a hands-on wood firing weekend of community-oriented programming, entirely for free

• First LGBTQIA+-led firing of the “ChickenCat,” East Creek Art’s wood/soda catenary arch kiln

 

May 2023 - Teacher of Carving Hand-built Cups for Woodfire, Daffodill Studio, Portland, OR

• Designer of course for beginner ceramic artists

• Course included instruction on hand-built ceramic fabrication and an introduction to wood-fired ceramics in preparation

• Created in conjunction with Queer Cat 2023: An LGBTQIA+ Woodfire Experience

 

May 2023 - Teacher of Beginning Woodfire for Queer Artists, Morning Ceramics, Portland, OR

• Designer of course beginner/intermediate ceramic artists

• Course included in-depth lessons on the wood-fired ceramic process, making time

• Created in conjunction with Queer Cat 2023: An LGBTQIA+ Woodfire Experience

 

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE 

 

November 2023- present - Store Manager at Kentucky Mudworks Louisville, Louisville KY 40223

• Managerial duties include taking inventory, product ordering, employee scheduling, communicating with and transferring products to and from KY Mudworks production facility in Lexington, KY

• Other duties include operating a forklift, driving a commercial work van, making clay and kiln deliveries, loading and firing customer work in electric kilns, answering phone calls and emails, working in the retail store with Shopify POS, being knowledgeable about products we offer

 

July 2022- present - Owner and Founder of Slydel Studio, Louisville, KY

• Personal art studio

• Production of ceramic artwork and other high quality, one-of-a-kind, handmade objects 

• Duties include ceramic and artwork design and production, vending at craft fair booths, advertising, social media management, brand design, website design, quarterly budgeting, sales, packaging, and shipping

 

Jan 2020- May 2023 - Glaze Technician and Production Assistant at Pigeon Toe Ceramics, Portland, OR

• Glazed all ceramic products and mixed/maintained over fifteen different ceramic glazes

• Additional duties included loading and unloading electric kilns, production slip-casting, packaging and shipping, sweeping, mopping, cleaning out grease trap

 

June 2020- June 2021 - Studio Manager at the Glass Building MFA Studios, PNCA, Portland, OR

• Oversaw thirty MFA students and their art studios

• Included assisting students with art fabrication, installation, tool safety and use, printing, scanning, and copying

 

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

2026 - Use, Form, Fired, Group Exhibition, Revelry Gallery, 742 E Market St, Louisville, KY 40202

2025 - Cup Show, Group Exhibition, Parkside Bikes, 1377 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY 40204

2022 - Fire and Ice, Group Exhibition, Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro, OR 97123

2021 - enbeing, MFA Thesis Exhibition, 511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97209

2019 - Can You Unpack That? - group MFA AC+D exhibition, Glass Building, 2139 N. Kerby Ave, Portland, OR 

2018 - they/them – a sculptural exploration of gender fluidity, solo BFA exhibition, S.Tucker Cooke Gallery, Owen Hall, Asheville, NC

2018 - Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design Pop-Up Student Exhibition, 67 Broadway Street, Asheville, NC

2018 - Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Asheville Area Arts Council,  Juror: Robert Tynes,

207 Coxe Avenue, Asheville, NC 

2017 - Annual Juried Student Exhibition,  Juror: Dan Millspaugh, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, Owen Hall, Asheville, NC

2014 - Annual Art Front Members’ Show, Intercultural Gallery Highsmith Union,

Asheville, NC

 

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

 

2023 - Co-Recipient of Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant for Queer Cat 2023: An LGBTQIA+ Woodfire Experience

2023 - Co-Recipient Regional Arts and Culture Council Arts3C Grant for Queer Cat 2023: An LGBTQIA+ Woodfire Experience

2021- East Creek Graduate Support Grant

2021- East Creek Art Golden Spot Residency

2020- Portland Institute of Contemporary Art Covid-19 Artist Relief Fund

2019 - PNCA AC & D Graduate Merit Scholarship 

2018 - Undergraduate Research Scholar distinction and publication in the Journal of Undergraduate Research at UNCA, Asheville, NC 28804

 

RELATED EXPERIENCE

 

2023-present - Participant in employee wood/soda kiln firings with Kentucky Mudworks, Lawrenceburg, KY

2023- 2025 - Co-Host of Heat Work, a ceramics podcast about wood firing and wood fire culture

2023- Co-Juror of Oregon Potter’s Association (OPA) High School Scholarship Ceramic Art Show, Portland, OR

2023 - Attendee of NCECA Concurrent, Cincinnati, OH

2022 - Panel speaker and attendee of Northwest Woodfire Conference, Newberg. OR

2021- 2022 - OPA Member Pop-up Shop, Ceramics Northwest, Portland, OR

2021 - Attendee of National Council on the Education of the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Rivers, Reflections, Reinventions, Virtual Conference

2019- 2023 - Participant in wood kiln firings at East Creek Art, Willamina, OR

2019 - Attendee of NCECA Claytopia, Minneapolis, MN

2018 - Presenter of Senior Thesis at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, Asheville, NC

2018 - Student attendee of NCECA CrossCurrents, Pittsburgh, PA

2017 - Presenter of research in Art History at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, Asheville, NC

2017 - Student attendee of NCECA Future Flux, Portland, OR

2016- 2018 - Participant in anagama kiln firings at UNCA, Asheville, NC