A ceramic artist based on Brattleboro, VT, creating abstract sculptural forms that explore material agency through the lens of new materialism theory. After 25 years in academia, systematic methodology guides my studio practice investigating how clay, glaze, heat and time collaborate in the creative process.
MD Ceramics Studio Updates - Fall 2026
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A ceramic artist based on Brattleboro, VT, creating abstract sculptural forms that explore material agency through the lens of new materialism theory. After 25 years in academia, systematic methodology guides my studio practice investigating how clay, glaze, heat and time collaborate in the creative process.
MD Ceramics Spring 2026 Studio Update Draw, Then Build This spring I've been thinking about the relationship between a drawing and the thing that comes after it. I taught Sculptural Handbuilding this winter at Wheelhouse Clay Center in Brattleboro, VT. I gave students an assignment that made several of them uncomfortable: draw the object first, then build it as drawn. Not approximately. Exactly. No letting the clay lead you somewhere more comfortable or more familiar. Stay true to the line on...
MD Ceramics Winter 2026 Studio Updaters Multiplicity & Materiality This winter I've been thinking about repetition as a method of understanding. When you make something once, you learn its form. Make it a dozen times and you begin to understand its behavior, its limits, the way different glazes move across its surface differently with each iteration. The studio has become a space of productive multiplicity, where similar forms cluster and diverge, where material tests accumulate into...
When Clay Has Agency Stories from a research-driven ceramics studio Fall 2025 Fall brings this particularly beautiful light streaming over the western ridge line, bouncing off windows, and lighting up the woods next to my small studio like a theater set. These broken sculptures in my garden tell stories in the raking evening light. Each fragment catches the late afternoon glow differently. Some surfaces reflect, others absorb, all of them participate in an ongoing conversation about what...