Resume: 1972 - Graduated from CCAC BFA Textiles 1973 - Two woman show Woman's Art Center, San Francisco 1978 - Began Sweet Potatoes (a line of children's clothing) with business partners Anna Hobbet and Ginny Holmes.  We grew quickly from my dining room table to having over 100 employees.  Sweet Potatoes was repeatedly voted one of the top women owned businesses in the Bay Area and became one of the most highly regarded  children's apparel manufacturers in the United States.  During my years as design director and president  we won numerous prestigious industry honors for design excellence including 6 Earnie Awards, the Dallas Fashion Award and the Atlanta Apparel Mart DIVA Award 1994 - Bitten by the clay bug after taking a class at the Richmond Art Center 1998 - United Clayworks Garden Show 1999 - 2004 - various open studio sales from my home 2001 - Three Artisan Show with Kirsti Bellows (jewelry) and Diana Fayt (ceramics) 2004 - Retired from Sweet Potatoes to begin potting full time 2005 - Joined Berkeley Potters Guild 2005 - Invited artist -Pots: Objects of Virtue, Bedford gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 2006 - Accepted into ACGA as an exhibiting member 2007 - Started own studio and gallery - fourth & clay 2390 " C" 4th St, Berkeley, CA      Artist Statement:       I am a utilitarian potter. My work is all about home and making beautiful usable everyday objects.        My career of 30 years of working with fabrics and designing clothing reflects in my clay art. I combine  traditional round thrown forms with  slab built elements. I rip, dart, pinch and sew the tops to pitchers, vases, tea pots and the like.  Sometimes I stamp them with  Indian fabric block prints or incise them with free flowing textile  prints that run off the surface.  Not afraid of color, I love to combine runny, independent glazes with flat, predictable underglazes. Hopefully the future users of my work can feel the joy I feel in making each piece.