ABOUT

I make pots and teach writing and pottery in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. I am inspired by the rich craft tradition of my community and my love of making pots for everyday use. Most pots I make are thrown on a wheel and altered, a process that reflects my appreciation of discipline and spontaneity.

Marge Piercy’s “To Be of Use” sums it up.

“The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.”