I taught public school K thru 12 for 3 years in Pennsylvania after graduating from college and began working toward a masters in education degree at Penn State University as a 'painter'. Painting being the queen of the arts!   Thru some luck, good now, bad then, and being low man on the totem pole of grad   teaching assistants, I drew ceramics;....pottery...clay sculpture.   Knowing little or nothing about the topic I enrolled in ceramics at Alfred university, the top American school for the ceramic arts, for   encouragement and info!

Another stroke of luck was landing my first college teaching job at Purdue University in Indiana, teaching ceramics and drawing. In the mid 60's with a few exhibitions and shows under my belt, I was juried into the 22nd Syracuse ceramic national at the Everson Museum in N.Y.

The sixties opened doors for many exhibitions, lectures, workshops, visiting teaching appointments, and opportunities to think about clay in new ways. New ways to extend the reference to the technical, and attempt to bump the boundaries of time and space.   Using   paint, colored chalk, pencils, crayons, and latex rubber for surface and physical changes, the show and lecture circuit continued.

In 1982 my sculptures called 'popeyes', with pencil and crayon on bisque clay received the first NEA award in ceramics. Exhibitions and workshops continued.

“Where do I go next?” I would say as I found myself repeating and rehashing ideas.     After a few dry years I traveled to Portugal and taught at the ARCO School of Art. This experience sparked 10 years of annual visits to seven countries making art, building kilns, lecturing, teaching and workshops.

In the 90's I had studios in Portugal , Denmark , the Netherlands , and Belgium . I met new colleagues that led to invitations to seminars and symposiums in more countries.

2001 was my first introduction to working with a commercial pottery company located in Italy . Other internationals and I worked in the studio on potential commercial products. Recently we built a wood firing kiln there and now it is being fired annually.

Since my retirement from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (in 2001-2-or-3. I can't remember since it is all the same) I moved to Galena, Illinois, I continue to work on small pottery pieces, fired in my wood kiln, and making an occasional large sculpture for shows.