Experience in teaching
2020 - Current│Ceramics Instructor - Laumeier
Develop lesson plans & adjust for learners of all abilities
Instruct children, teenagers & adults) in wheel-throwing, hand-building, glazing and design.
Shadow other instructors to improve teaching methods
Set up before class begins, and clean studio after class
Summer 2023 - Current │Hand-Building - Craft Alliance
Adult hand-building classes and workshops
January 2023 │Wheel-Throwing Together - Laumeier
Adult Class
Demonstrated hand-building, wheel-throwing & painting underglaze for a 1-day class.
May 2022 │Mud + Merlot the Wheel - Laumeier
Adult Class
Demonstrated hand-building, wheel-throwing & painting underglaze for a 1-day class.
Apr 2021│On + Off the Wheel - Laumeier
Adult Class
Demonstrated hand-building, wheel-throwing & painting underglaze for a 1-day class. Developed the syllabus.
2019 - 2020│ English Instructor
Taught English to children online through drawings, shapes, & colors; developed the lesson plans and tracked student progress
2015│High School Class Shadowing - Jason Hoeing - Ceramics
Kirkwood Sr High School
Shadowed Jason Hoeing’s class
Awards & Recognition
2023 Awarded a grant by Regional Arts Commission
2023 Grant Proposal Accepted - STLCC - Forest Park
Grant written with artist and faculty member Zackary Petot; this grant will purchase printing equipment not often available for college students to use, and will provide them a unique experience to learn skills they will need for print shops in the area.
2022 Awarded a grant by Regional Arts Commission
2022 Grant Proposal Accepted - STLCC - Forest Park
This grant supports the students at St Louis Community College- Forest Park
My proposal for a grant was accepted in the amount of $3,331.53; this grant assists students by bringing in artists to discuss navigating art show applications & how to best photograph & document their work/prepare portfolios. This grant is an attempt to increase equity amongst budding artists at the college.
Special thanks to Norleen Nosri
2019 Wagnar Potter's Association Award for Exemplary Academic Achievement, Edwardsville
2016 Faculty Choice Award for Artistic Achievement in Fine Arts, Kirkwood
2015 Dean's Choice Award for Artistic Achievement in Fine Arts, Kirkwood
Exhibitions and Shows
2024 The UnBirthday Party - 19th Teapot Biennial, Craft Alliance
2023 STL Mug Market
2023 Environmental Indicator
Forest Park Art Gallery - Solo Exhibition
2022 STL Mug Market
2022 Duo Exhibition "Collected Fragments", St Louis Artist Guild
2022 Raise a Toast II, Edwardsville Art Center Juried Exhibition
2022 The Gallery Program, Kirkwood Performing Arts Center
2022 “Communi-Tea”, St Louis Community College
2020 “Creatures”, Art St Louis
2020 Art St Louis “Varsity Art” Artist Q&A Series
2019 Display Case, St Louis Community College
2019 Permanent Installation│Arts & Sciences Office- SIU- Edwardsville
2019 Remnants - Art + Design West Gallery: SIU-Edwardsville
2019 Juried Student Show - SIU-Edwardsville
Awarded Wagner Potter’s Association Award
2018 Get Out the Vote- Centene Center for the Arts
2018 Hybridity - Edwardsville Art Center
2017 Small Works Show - Edwardsville Art Center
2016 Varsity Art XX Exhibition - Art Saint Louis
Awarded Honorable Mention & interviewed by Art Saint Louis.
2015 Juried Show - St Louis Community College
Awarded Faculty Choice Award for artistic achievement
2013 Juried Show - St Louis Community College
Awarded Dean’s Choice Award for artistic achievement
2012 Juried Show - St Louis Community College
♢Education ♢
2019 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics, minor in German
2017 Webster University - Webster Groves, Missouri
Accepted into the Fine Arts Program and Honors Program
2016 St Louis Community College - Associates of Arts
Community Involvement
2024 Wheel-throwing Workshop for local Girl Scouts Guild
2023 DISCOVER LAUMEIER / Art and Artists in Nature
2023 NCECA Community Art Projects
Donated mugs to the Mug Sale Fundraiser
2022 35th Annual Art Fair set-up - Laumeier
2022 Group Wood Kiln Firing
2022 NCECA Community Art Projects
Group Art Installation - Clay Cornucopia - Sacramento CA
Group Project - Battleground, Fertile Ground, Sacred Clay
Donated 1 mug to the Mug Sale Fundraiser
2022 Soldering Workshop - Perennial Studios
2022 $3,331.53 Grant Proposal Accepted - STLCC - Forest Park
2019 Componere Gallery - St. Louis, Missouri - The Loop
2022 Pottery Sale - St Louis Community College - Forest Park
2022 Discover Laumeier - Art opening for “ŠTO TE NEMA"
Led artistic activities at this outdoor event; assisted in set-up
2022 Componere Art Gallery
Assisted Dina Worzel, Gallery owner and director, in assembling shelves
2013-2021 Empty Bowls - STLCC
2019-2019 Chili Bowl Sale - SIU-Edwardsville
2017-2019 Mug Sale - SIU-Edwardsville
2016 Featured "The Hour Before Sunrise", a short film by Angela Guo
2016 Symphony Chaco - Saint Louis Community College
Hand built & burnished pottery; these pieces were symbolically broken during a performance conducted by composer Gary Gackstatter, feat R. Carlos Nakai.
2016 Community Art Project - Equilibrium
Steve Hilton, James Ibur and Dale McDonald
Assisted in assembling a large-scale temporary installation of unfired clay.
2015 Donor Family Night of Remembrance
Mid-America Transplant Services - Melody Evans
The Lobby Mosaic Panels comprised of these tiles is on display in the Mid-American Transplant corporate Headquarters, in St. Louis, MO
♢Permanent Collections♢
2022: Environment-themed porcelain vase, sold to private collector
2021: Frog-themed teapot, sold to private collector
2021: Frog-themed porcelain vase, sold to private collector
2020: Oil on canvas, Portrait of Wednesday, 24" by 17", sold to private collector
2019: Oil on canvas, portrait of a child, 8" by 10", sold to private collector
2018: Porcelain; cactus-shaped flower vase with lizard. Sold to private collector
2018: Porcelain; 2 Drosophila fly-themed mugs salt fired. Sold to private collector
2016: Porcelain teapot - Sold to private collector
2015: Graphite on paper; two locket portraits, 3⁄4" in size.
2015: Porcelain dragon teapot, high fire oxidation. Sold to private collector
2015: Porcelain, high-fire oxidation, chicken mug. Sold to Molly Geigle
2015: Prismacolor pencil, blue paper; Saint Louis Hi-Pointe Theatre, 8" by 10". Sold to Thomas Nitzsche
2015: Two-figure portrait, graphite on paper.
2014: Porcelain, 'Brown Betty Style' frog teapot. Sold to Brooke Holden
2013: Acrylic on Canvas, portrait of child, 16" by 20". Sold to private collector