Growing up, when I wasn’t playing in the mud I was practicing the piano. I began teaching piano the same year I took my first ceramics class in high school.

Coincidentally, my ceramics college professor happened to be my father’s high school ceramics teacher from 26 years earlier. How many people can say that?! We still make pottery together and continue to learn from one another.

As an adult raising three children, pottery was temporarily put on hold and I began teaching piano full-time. I ran a full studio with many students coming through each week, which only allowed me to dabble in the mud when I visited my parents. But when we had a chance, my dad and I would go throw on the wheel.

In 2011, after moving to Brisbane, Australia, I began working with adults with special needs. This became a new passion, which led me to open a center for adults with various diagnoses when we returned to the States. Ohana Day Center in Utah is a unique center that I’m very proud of as it continues to provide care and is currently led by amazing women.

I now live in Eagle, Idaho with my husband, Brandon, and our golden doodle, Bo. With the kids grown, I’ve found myself ready to reconnect with the mud. We made a studio in our garage where I’m able to create and completely immerse myself in the process.

My garage studio is my happy place as I process my empty nest and move away from Ohana. It is truly mud therapy. My pottery will continue to evolve and grow as I do, and I’m thrilled you’re here to follow my journey.