I arrived Monday afternoon after nearly 20 hours of traveling to Guldagergaard (Pronounced goo-la-gohr) in Skaelskor, Denmark. As the jet leg subsides, I am beginning to feel right at home in the International Ceramic Research Center Studios. All I need now are some ears on the pig sculpture I’m working on and I’ll be cruisin’ right along!
In November I’m packing my bags for Denmark to participate in the Project Network Symposium at the International Ceramic Research Center in Skaelskor. The symposium gathers together 12 recently graduated undergraduates from all over the world to make connections and ceramic work for six weeks! I will be representing not only the Kansas City Art Institute, but also undergraduate ceramics from the United States. Many thanks to Cary Esser and the faculty at Guldagergaard for selecting me for this amazing opportunity! Below is a link to their website:
http://www.ceramic.dk/ENGLISH/sites/produkter.asp?id=29&myActive=29&sitemod=gruppe
I am very excited to announce that I was awarded a Charlotte Street Foundation Urban Culture Project Studio Residency @ the Bonfils location near 12th and Grand. The space will provide me with the resources to continue my studio practice in Kansas City for the next year! And thanks to a recently established partnership between the Charlotte Street Foundation and Red Star Studios, I will be able to continue to fire my work at an affordable cost in a convenient location. Below is an image of my studio space. It’s finally starting to feel like home…
I am excited to announce that my senior thesis piece, Bull in a China Shop, will be published in the September 2009 issue of Ceramics Monthly as a part of the Undergraduate Showcase Article! Fellow classmate Timo Fahler, and I were both selected to appear in this article along with eight other undergraduates across the country. Here is the link to the article at Ceramics Monthly online:
This summer as well as last summer I was was commissioned to design and fabricate the People’s Choice Award for the Art of the Car Concours at KCAI. It is a vintage car exhibit that celebrates antique cars as works of art. Below is an image of one of the People’s Choice Awards in action. Congratulations to all five winners!
I have just posted new work from my Thesis exhibitions at the Kansas City Art Institute. Check it out by looking at my KCAI portfolio.
Unusual Portal is a piece I made during my junior year in Ceramics at KCAI, It is a replica in clay of an actual door in Kansas City located near 25th and Troost. I just recently found a home in St. Louis for it, and I couldn’t imagine a more perfect spot.
Knock,Knock
89″X36″X10″
Ceramic, Wood, Concrete
This piece was installed in one of the main administrative buildings on the Kansas City Art Institute Campus called Vanderslice. The piece speaks to the strange things people do to animals for purposes of vanity, while at the same time the manifestation of a childhood daydream. Have you ever wondered if there was a lion on the other side of the door?
My latest work has focussed on cabinets and other architectural structures as a format for highly symbolic pieces. These are some images of those pieces. For more views check out my KCAI Portfolio page.
Allegory of Love
20″x35″x3″
I was fortunate to recieve a scholorship to attend the Penland School of Crafts for two weeks. Perched on top of one of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, it was a beautiful and refreshing place to learn. I partook in a torch worked glass workshop with Micheal Mangiafico. The goal of the class was to learn the basics of torch working and to be able to make glass insects by the end of the class. 
The Dragon Fly is one of Micheal’s demo pieces. This is what we were expected to be able to make by the end of the two weeks! Lets just say mine was a little less fancy.
