“My art training has been eclectic. I was born in Germany to a mother who was passionate about art history and travel, so I became intimate with art and museums at an early age. As a teen and in my twenties, I haunted contemporary art museums, absorbing art movements by osmosis. When I decided to change careers in 1989, after ten years as a polymer scientist, I first turned to writing and then began to study ceramics at Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, where I became a studio artist in 1995. I participated in the WARM Mentor Program from 2006-2008 and the Women’s Art Institute in 2017. I have maintained a studio in the Northrup King Building in Minneapolis since 2008.
I mostly work in terra cotta and create wall installations based on pod shapes for large scale commissions. The rattles grew out of my desire to make a small version of my pods that fit comfortably into the hand. I began working with metal clay when I realized that I could use ceramic surface techniques to create jewelry.”
