CEO/Owner of Corgi Clay Art Center LLC.

2023 - Present
Stafford County’s first vibrant, creative community that offers ceramics classes, firing services, artist residencies, teaching and exhibition opportunities, and memberships for potters.

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Owner/Manager of Corgi Clay LLC

2020- Present

Classes and sales in pottery and sculptural ceramic artwork.

 

Adjunct Professor

2009-2022, The University of Mary Washington

Teach two to three courses a semester in a variety of art disciplines to include Design Principles, Sculpture, Ceramics and Figurative Sculpture. Classes meet twice a week for 2-3 hours, in a 16-week semester. Weekly coaching and mentoring of undergraduate students providing feedback, lesson planning, curriculum support and evaluation of student work. Create media and materials to enhance instruction and retention of learning objectives. Deliver instruction and understanding of objectives and learning outcomes to diverse groups of students with consistent and high-quality instruction. Encourage students to think critically about the work they are creating, how that work fits into the field’s traditions and how their work should enhance or evolve the field’s future.

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Director of Visual Arts Education

2010-2020, The Workhouse Arts Center

Responsible for managing and directing an arts education program that is accountable for $400k in earned revenue of a $3M yearly budget. Duties include hiring qualified arts educators for a variety of disciplines, managing a complex multi-classroom schedule, diverse personalities, payroll, accounting and classroom facilities upkeep and repair as needed. Additionally, search and write content for grants to support educational programming. Recently secured $197K in grant funding to support a new Military in the Arts Initiative through private health foundations, the VCA and the NEA.

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Ceramics Instructor

2008-2021, The Workhouse Arts Center

Teach beginner to advanced techniques in ceramics to adults through continuing education and community level courses. Classes meet once a week for three hours for nine consecutive weeks per quarter. Topics vary from hand-building to wheel-throwing techniques.

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EDUCATION

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The University of the Arts

2005-2007

MFA in Ceramics
Post-Graduate Teaching License for Virginia

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The University of Mary Washington

1999-2003

BA in Studio Art
NK-12 Teaching License for Virginia

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Exhibitions

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2023
 

• All that I adore, Liberty Town Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA.

 

2021

 

• Clay: A Southern Census, Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA.

• Homeward Bound, TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART, Roanoke, VA.

• UMW Studio Art Faculty Exhibition, The University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA.
   

2020

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• Student/Faculty Exhibition, The Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

• George Mason Regional Library, Annandale, VA

• Workhouse Arts Center 10th Annual Clay International Juried Exhibition, The Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton VA.

• RE-Sisters: Women in Clay Invitational, an NCECA 2020 sponsored exhibit, The Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton VA.

• Origins: UMW Ceramics Faculty and Alumni, The University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA.

• Freedom Arts Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA.
   

2018

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• Brew Vessels Invitational, The Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

• I’d Tap That, The Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

• Student/Faculty Exhibition, The Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

• Art & Art History Department Faculty, DuPont Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA.

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2016

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• Student/Faculty Exhibition, The Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

• Remixed 4, PONSHOP Gallery & Studio, Fredericksburg, VA.

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2015

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• Student/Faculty Exhibition, The Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

• Adjunct Professor Art Exhibition, DuPont Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA.

• Remixed 3, PONSHOP Gallery & Studio, Fredericksburg, VA.

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2014

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• Student/Faculty Exhibition, The Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

• Urban Decay V, The Fridge Gallery, Washington DC.

• Remixed 2, PONSHOP Gallery & Studio, Fredericksburg, VA.

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2013

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• Student/Faculty Exhibition, The Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

• Urban Decay IV, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

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2012

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• Student/Faculty Exhibition, The Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

• Urban Decay III, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

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2011

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• Student/Faculty Exhibition, The Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

• Urban Decay II, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

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2010

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• Urban Decay, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

• Chain Reaction, Liberty Town Arts Center, Fredericksburg, VA.

• Toy2R Qee Exhibition, Spaghetti Project, Fredericksburg, VA.

• January - August Workhouse Artist Associate Exhibition, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

• Patron Exhibition, Liberty Town Arts Center, Fredericksburg, VA.

• New Works: Students/Faculty/Staff, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA.

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2008

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• Kid Mutiny, District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC), Washington DC, VA.

• Rejuvenile, Solo Exhibition, Liberty Town Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA.

• Southworks Juried Art Exhibition, Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA.

• Fragments, The Fredericksburg Center for the Creative arts, Fredericksburg, VA.

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2007

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• Toying with Art, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA.

• The Presidents Show, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

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2005

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• Englewood Arts National Juried Art Show, Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood, CO.

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2004

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• Wills Creek Survey, Wills Creek Gallery, Cumberland, MD.

• Eyeclops Exhibition, Eyeclops Studio, Fredericksburg, VA.
   

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Exhibitions I have Juried

 

2022

 

• Fredericksburg Fine Arts Show, Friday, at the Dorothy Hart Community Center, 408 Canal St., Fredericksburg
   

​2021

 

• Fredericksburg Fine Arts Show, Friday, at the Dorothy Hart Community Center, 408 Canal St., Fredericksburg

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2016

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• For the Love of Animals, at Liberty Town Arts Workshop, 916 Liberty St, Fredericksburg, VA