Headshot courtesy of Buatti-Ramos Photography

I have been making artwork for as long as I can remember. Growing up in my mom's pottery studio, Duck Creek Pottery, I learned at an early age how to turn clay into whatever I wanted it to be, such as pizzas, snowmen and birds. After patient instruction from my mom, around age five I was able to make discernible items and began selling my work at my mom's craft shows.

Art continued to be a very important part of my life throughout high school & college at UNC Chapel Hill. Study abroad in Florence, Italy my senior year of college gave my art a profound new dimension. I also have a passion for archaeology and graduated with a BFA in art concentrating in clay sculpture and a second major in anthropology concentrating in archaeology. I worked full time in an art gallery in Chapel Hill for four years after college and loved every minute of it!

I currently live in Durham, NC with my cats, Luna and Cleo. I was the studio director at an internationally known portrait photography studio for almost 8 years and learned a ton of invaluable info about photography and business! I was also the office manager at a soap and candle making supply company, and have had a great time incorporating candles and soaps into my clay work. I am currently the operations manager at BioSkryb Genomics, a startup single-cell amplification company with brand new cutting-edge technology, and love that we are helping progress science towards finding cures and better treatments for cancer as well as a host of other diseases and applications.

I love having a clay jewelry/sculpture, painting, apparel design, headshot, and nature photography business in my spare time and I sell my work at local shows, on Fine Art America, Etsy, and here on my website.

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Woodlake Handmade Holiday Craft Show

Sunday, December 9, 2018
11:00 AM 4:00 PM 11:00 16:00

Woodlake Clubhouse 94 Lakeshore Drive Durham, NC 27713 (map)

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The 3rd annual Woodlake Handmade Holiday Craft Show will include 14 South Durham artists and 2 bakers and will be set up in the Woodlake clubhouse on Sunday, December 9th, 2018 from 11am to 4pm.

This year we will be raising money for a local charity near and dear to our Woodlake residents. A resident of the neighborhood, has ALS and has been fighting valiantly against it for years. At least 5% of all artists' sales will be collected at the end of the show to donate to the NC ALS society in her name. And there will be a table with more information about the charity, a donation jar, etc for patrons at the show as well.