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Education                 

2002         MFA Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. Concentration: Ceramics and Sculpture

1996         BFA New York State College of Ceramics and Design at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
                Concentration: Ceramics 

Selected Exhibitions

2006         Jae Won Lee and Blake Williams, Flora Kirsch Beck Gallery, Clack Art Center, Alma, MI

2005         Remnants/Relics, Goodyear Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA (Solo Exhibition)

                Recent Work,Rose Lehrman Art Center Gallery, Harrisburg, PA (2-Person)

                LSU Ceramics 1970-2005, Hot Stuff/Clay Tigers,Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA &
                Shaw Center Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA (Group Invitational)

                Women Playing with Fire, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX (Group)

                White on White, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit, MI and
                Sub-basement Artist Studio, Baltimore, MD (Group Invitational, NCECA)

2004         Left Brain-Right Brain: Text in Visual Art, Lemon Street Gallery, Kenosha, WI (Group)

                Ninety-nine,School of Art Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
                (Group Invitational)

                Sustenance, Fuller Project Gallery, NCECA Pre-Conference,
                Bloomington, IN (Solo Exhibition)

                Note-Think-Process, University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University,
                Mount Pleasant, MI (Four-Person Invitational)

2003         Unnatural Materials, Review, Kansas City, KS (Group Invitational: Print Form Only)

                Slow Healing, Gallery 114, East Lansing, MI (Solo Exhibition)

2002         Traces, Bry Art Gallery, University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, LA (Solo Exhibition)

                Liminal Recollection...Between Memory and Reality, MFA Thesis Exhibition,
                Foster Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA (Solo Exhibition) 

                Recent Ceramic Graduate Students, Pewabic Pottery Gallery, Detroit, MI (Juried)

                Fourteenth San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, Museum of Fine Arts,
                San Angelo, TX (Juror: Jimmy Clark)

                Nien Thing, Oculus Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA (Nine-Person Exhibition)

2001         Stretch National Invitational, Afro-American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC
                (Jurors: Rick Crowley and Rick Parsons, NCECA)

                Ceramics 2001, The Guilford Handcraft Center, Guilford, CT(Juror: John Glick)

                The Ninth Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National, The Lancaster
                Museum of Art Lancaster, PA (Juror: Linda Christianson)

                Baton Rouge Juried Exhibition, Foster Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA (Juror: Bill Jensen)                    

Selected Teaching Experience

2005 –Present   Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI;
                    Co-coordinator, Ceramics Program

2004 – 2005     Visiting Assistant Professor, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA; Ceramics and Sculpture

2004              Lecturer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ;
                    Summmer Ceramics

2002 – 2004     Visiting Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI;
                    Ceramics and Sculpture

2000 – 2002     Instructor of Record, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
                    Ceramics, Sculpture, 2D and 3D Design

2001              Studio Teaching Assistant, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC;
                    “Pots Beyond Process” with Bobby Silverman

1997 – 1999     Instructor, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA; Ceramics

Selected Professional Experience                 

2006         Visiting Artist, Gallery Talk and Slide Lecture, Alma College, Alma, MI

2005         Gallery Walk; Lecture and Demonstrations, Creating Pewabic Pottery: Techniques and
               Traditions, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

               Curator; Surface and Structure, Artist Exhibition Series, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

               Visiting Artist, Slide Lecture, Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, PA

2004         Visiting Artist, Slide Lecture, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI

               Technical Consultant, Ceramics, Westminster Ceramics, Tucker, GA

2003         Visiting Artist, Slide Lecture and Demonstrations in Ceramics, Rutgers,
               The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

2002         Visiting Artist, Slide Lecture, University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, LA
      

               Visiting Artist, Slide Lecture, Demonstrations, and Ceramics Student Critiques
               Kalamazoo College, MI

Professional Organizations

2001-Present       College Art Association

1999-Present       National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts

Awards

2004              Research and Development Grant, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

1999 – 2002     Graduate Student Assistantship Award, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

2001              Summer Assistantship Award, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,
                    LA (Awarded to fund my participation in the L.S.U. Design Program in Mexico)

1994              Junior Functional Design Award, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, NY                              

1991              Contemporary Crafts Award, The Cranbrook Educational Community, Bloomfield Hills, MI