Solo Exhibitions
WILD THINGS, Gallery Telescope, Kyoto, Japan. June 2025. Paintings,
Sculpture and Poetry.
INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS, Hugomento Gallery, San Francisco, CA. August 2023.
Sculptural and figurative work with poetry.
UTOPIAN POTS Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA July 2021 Twenty pieces of sculptural
and functional work.
LOOMINGS Craig Krull Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica CA January 2021.
Abstract whale sculptures
THE WHALE SHOW: Atmospheric Ceramics. Red Metal Barn Gallery, Sonoma, CA.
October 2018. Seventeen ceramic sculptures, wood and soda-fired. Curator: Jenness
Brewer
Group Exhibitions
QUIETUDE Hugomento, San Francisco, CA August 2022. Sculptural work shown
alongside Janet Jones and Hideo Yoshida.
A REAL LIFE CHANGER Red Metal Barn, Sonoma, CA. March 2022 Sculptural work
alongside artist Michael Deyermond.
CONE-PACT, Ruby’s Clay Studio, San Francisco, CA June 2022. Sculptural and
functional ceramics shown alongside artist Scott Jennings
Juried Exhibitions
Crocker Kingsley 2024, Sacramento, California
AMOCA, Fahrenheit 2024, Pomona, California
Clay and Ink 2025, Pomona College, California.
2nd Maverick Pottery Invitational, Salida, Colorado.
Clay National XVI, Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO, August 2022
Feats of Clay 2022, Art League of Lincoln, March 2022
Seismic State: California Ceramics, Sparrow Gallery, Sacramento, CA held in
conjunction with 2022 NCECA. Juror: Beth Ann Gerstein March 2022
Ruby’s: A Legacy NCECA 2022, Sacramento, CA Juror: John Toki. March 2022
California Contemporary Sculpture Chico Art Center, June 2021 juror: Linda Fleming
Visions in Clay, Stockton, CA September 2019 Juror: Sarah Millfelt
Clay and Glass Redux, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, June 2019.
Ceramics in Focus 2019: Six Ceramicists of the ACGA, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA.
Juror: Lana Wilson
California Clay Competition, 2019 The Artery, Davis, CA. Juror: Bill Abright
Crocker-Kinsley Annual 2019, Sacramento, CA. Juror: David Siegel, Art Critic LA
Times, January 2019Visions in Clay 2018, Horton Gallery, Juror: Beth Ann Gertz,
AMOCA
UnWedged 2018, Pottery Northwest, Juror: Julia Galloway
Off Center 2018, Blue Line Gallery. Juror: Michelle Gregor
California Clay Competition 2017, The Artery, Davis, CA.
Purposeful Pottery 2017, Blue Line Gallery,
California Clay Competition 2016, The Artery, Davis, CA
Purposeful Pottery 2016, Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA
Beyond the Line, Marin Art Society, 2016.
Plates, Teapots, and Totems, Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA. 2012
Awards
Artist in Residence, Pond Farm Pottery, Guernville, CA. March 2020
Artist in Residence, MomaZozo Artist Colony, Carrizzo, New Mexico 2017
Artist-in-Residence, Willapa Bay AIR, Oysterville, WA, 2015
Writing Residency Fellowship, Norton Island, Maine, 2014
Writing Fellowship, Playa Summer Lake, Oregon. 2013
Intersection for the Arts, Broadsides Attractions, Writer. 2012
Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, 2000, Nimrod International Journal
Zoetrope All-Story Finalist, 2001
Squaw Valley Community of Writers Fellowship 2000.
Publications
CRACKED POT, a memoir. Latah Books 2023
Next Door, a chapbook of poetry. Bottlecap Books, Los Angeles CA 2023
Published Work:
Westwind “It’s an Asperger’s World”
California Quarterly “Pascal’s Law of Connected Vessels”
Green Mountains Review “The History of Someone Who Came Too Late”
The Florida Review “The Minutes of The Palmdale Commons”
Nimrod International Journal “Laughlin, Nevada”
The Nebraska Review "Java Beach"
The Talking River Review "Time Out"
Other Voices "Courting"
River Styx "Fog"
The Bridge "King"
The Santa Barbara Review "Not Past Rock"
Studio Potter “Every Pot is a Test Tile”
Ceramics Monthly, “The Julia Terr Fund for Ceramic Arts” June 2013
Studio Potter “Every Pot a Test Tile,” Summer 2012
Education
MA, New York University, Creative Writing and English, 1989
BA, UCLA, English Literature, 1984
Community
Volunteer Caregiver, Hospice of Petaluma, 2011 – present.
Board Member, Julia Terr Fund for Ceramic Arts. 2010-present. Manage, promote and
fundraise for Fund named after my late wife that grants monies to non-profit
organizations nationwide who support the education of ceramic arts including Archie Bray
Foundation, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, The ArtStream Nomadic Gallery, The
Sonoma Community Center, POTS on WHEELS, Penland School of Craft, and many
others.
