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About the Artist2012 Schedule of Events!Shows and Events!Festival of the Arts Nature's Showcase ExhibitFrehner Gallery, Monroe Center for the Arts, Monroe Wisc... Feb. 24 till Fri. March 23......Artist's Reception Fri. Feb. 24 5-7 Open to the Public Mother's Day Spring Open House Judy and Melinda's Show! Excelsior Lake Art Festival Clay Camp for Grownups! Click here to download form! Stockholm Art Fair Art Fair on the Green Driftless Art Show IBAM (Irish Books and Music) Holiday Pottery Show and Sale! Click here to download flyer and directions! Display GalleriesState Street Gallery, LaCrosse Wisc. Cheddar Heads, Art II, LaCrosse, Wisc. Honig's, LaCrosse, Wisc. News and Comments!Besides making lots of fun things with clay, I have also been busy with my grand children. We are up to four now, with the arrival of McKenna Lyn on Dec. 15 2009! Patrick Michael, Aug. 25, 2009, Leah Jane, June 10, 2008 & Haley Lyn on Sept. 11, 2007 Clay Camps!Clay can be fun for everyone! To date, I have held many clay camps.... CLAY CAMP FOR KIDS, & CLAY CAMP FOR GROWNUPS occur in both June and Aug. if you have any interest...send me an e-mail and I'll keep you posted of upcoming opportunities to have fun with clay! I LOVE STANDARD POODLES! LET ME KNOW WHAT KIND OF DOG YOU HAVE!
I grew up in a middle class Illinois family, the only girl, and an artistic one at that, in a family of boys. When I was in the 8th grade, we were given an assignment to write a one page essay that let us dream of what we wanted to be "when we grew up." This was an easy task... I simply wrote "Artist."
My faithful friend "Lindy" I headed for college at Northern Illinois University in 1970, planning to become an art teacher. But I was soon swept away by the design department and received my B.F.A. in interior design and drafting.
Adult Clay Camp in my shady yard, right near my pottery shed! Shear delight! A great place to have a creative day with clay! My husband and I relocated to La Crosse, Wisconsin a few years later and I have spent 33 years here as a self employed architectural designer specializing in custom housing. In between work, I raised two beautiful daughters who are now mothers themselves. I was a scout leader, school volunteer and on too many committees to mention. In 2000, I attended a Clay Camp on the Mississsippi for a week and I've never looked back! After several semesters at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse studying pottery, numerous seminars around the country and many many hours of trial and error, I can truly call myself a "clay artist." In 2001, I won a first place award for my "Craftsman style plate" in a local competition that was fowarded on to our State Capitol.
If you visit my studio in Onalaska, you will find me working dilligently with my black standard poodle "Lindy" laying on her bed near by. She is my constant companion. On the road, it is my husband Mike of 35 years, an electrical contractor, that takes over the duties of "roadie, chaueffer, set up and take down and constant errand runner." Without him, none of this would be possible. Thanks Mike, and thank you for your interest in my pottery. May you never become so used to the world that it no longer seems wonderful! Mike and I are Irish and love the Irish culture...and a few Guiness now and then.....here we are at Irishfest La Crosse in 2009! Silante! |
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