EDUCATION
MFA, Ceramics Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
BA, Art Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1999 - present Instructor, The Webb School of Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee
2019 - present Instructor, Walter's State College, New Tazewell, Tennessee
2022 Instructor, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee
2014 Visiting Artist, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Louisiana
1995-96, 99-05 Instructor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
1996 Visiting Artist, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1994 Instructor, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
1993, 94 Lecturer, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana
1991 Resident Artist, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
1990-91 Assistant Professor, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
EXHIBITIONS
2025 "Teeny, Tiny," Hazen Gallery, Cumberland, Maryland
2024 "The Art of Culinary Show," Nicolet College, Rhinelander, Wisconsin
"Small Works," Five Points Gallery, Torrington, Connecticut
"Compact: Small Works of Art," Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana
"Shoals Art Invitational," University of North Alabama's Elaine Bailey Augustine Gallery, Florence, Alabama
"Texas National," Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas
"Connections," Leu Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee
"The Grandeur of Color," Modern Visual Arts Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
"Anything Goes Group Show," Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock, Texas
2023 "Small Works," Indiana University, Kokomo, Indiana
"Delicious," Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, California
"Let's Get Small," Create Arlington, Arlington, Texas
2022 "House Party: R.S.V.P.B.Y.O.B," Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Salem, North Carolina
2021 "Starry, Starry Night," Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, Arizona
2020 "Emerald Spring Painting Exhibition," Achievement Award, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Oregon
2019 "Small and Smaller," Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
"Artists Who Teach," Ellington-White Contemporary, Fayetteville, North Carolina
"The Big Tiny," District Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee
2018 "Journeys," Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee
2017 "Postcards from the Edge," Metro Pictures, New York, New York
"Arts & Culture Alliance National Juried Exhibition," Emporium Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee
2016 "Small Histories," Ross Gallery, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, North Carolina
"Resonance," Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan and Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn,
Michigan
"The Art of the Tomato," Art and Invention Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2015 "Small Histories," Tennessee Tech University, Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, Tennessee
2014 "Visiting Artists," New Orleans Center for Creative Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Anderson Ranch Arts Center Benefit Auction,” Snowmass, Colorado
2013 "Arts in the Airport," Award of Merit, Tyson McGhee Airport, Alcoa, Tennessee
2012 “a res cogitans,” Kristin Wigley-Fleming Fine Arts Gallery, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
2011 “Ceramics Invitational,” A.L. Swanson Gallery, Helena, Montana
“Archie Bray Foundation Benefit Auction,” Shaner Warehouse, Helena, Montana
“Anderson Ranch Arts Center Benefit Auction,” Snowmass, Colorado
2010 “Re/evolution,” A.L. Swanson Gallery, Helena, Montana
2008 “Ceramic Objects/Conceptual Material,” Fine Arts Center Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas
“Couples,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
2007 “Lineages,” Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee
2006 “50 States, 50 Artists,” Mass Gallery, Austin, Texas
“Archie Bray Foundation Benefit Auction,” Shaner Warehouse Gallery, Helena, Montana
“UT Collects,” Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee
2005 “Faculty Show,” Webb School of Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee
“No Facsimile,” Flourescent Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee
2004 “Site Specifics ’04,” The Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
"Sometimes a Great Notion," Illinois Central College, East Peoria, Illinois
2001 "Archie Bray Foundation Benefit Auction," Helena Civic Center, Helena, Montana
"Eastern Montana Clay Invitational," Custer County Art Center, Miles City, Montana
"Barefoot in the City Design Concept Exhibition," Townsend Gallery, Knoxville, Tenneseee
2000 "Sublime Servers," Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, Maryland and
Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery, New York, New York and
The James Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
1999 "Brogden, Johnson, Sabin," Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
"Tennessee Clay Ways," Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee
"Whimsical Ceramic Cup Competition," Earthen Art Works, Los Angeles, California
"Out of Clay II," Susannah Keith Gallery, Dexter, Michigan
1998 "Juried Alumni Show," Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
1997 "Todd Johnson - Recent Work," The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"The Clay Cup VI," Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
"Brogden, Johnson, Sigel: Recent Work," Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota
"Meta/Morph: Nature Reflected," Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky
"All Fired Up Clay National," Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
"Crossroads in Clay," Middletown Fine Arts Center, Middletown, Ohio
1996 "Rendezvous!," Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska
"San Angelo National Ceramic Competition," Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
"Knoxville and Vicinity: Transitions," University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
303 Gallery, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia
1995 "Johnson - Fairfield," South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana
"Group Show," M.C. Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Monarch National Ceramic Competition," Kennedy-Douglass Center, Florence, Alabama
"34th Mid-States Craft Exhibition," Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, Indiana
1994 "Ceramics Invitational," Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri
"Faculty Exhibit," Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana
1993 "NCECA Clay National," traveling, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
"Todd Johnson," Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Michigan
"Group Show," M.C. Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"New Art Forms Exposition," M.C. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1992 "The Clay Cup," Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
"Beyond the Obvious," St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota
"1992 Ceramics Invitational," Southwestern Michigan College, Dowagiac, Michigan
1991 "Ceramics Now 1991," Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California
"Brogden, Johnson, Kamm: New Faculty," Preus Gallery, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
1990 "National Art Competition," Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, Missouri
"Octagon Annual," Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa
1989 "Wyoming Clay Show," Nicolaysen Museum of Art, Casper, Wyoming
"New Talent," One-One-Eight Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
"Michigan Ceramics '89," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
"MFA Degree Exhibition," Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
"Made of Clay," Tonawanda's Council for the Arts Gallery, Tonawanda, New York
1988 "National Cup, Teapot and Vessel Show," Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana
"Earthen V," Michigan Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
"Student Exhibition," Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
1987 "Clay Art: Area Universities," Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Michigan
"Earthen IV," Michigan Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
"Out of the Earth / Into the Light," Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
PUBLICATIONS
Gustafson, Eleanor H., End Notes: Turning the Tables at MESDA, The Magazine Antiques, May/June 2022
Genocchio, Benjamin, Married to Art and to Each Other, The New York Times, April 27, 2008
Saucers with Four Face Cups (for J.J.) clay, wood and graphite sculpture, 2007, as reproduced in
Islip Art Museum, Couples, exhibition catalog, 2008
Imagine, stoneware sculpture, 2007, as reproduced in University of Arkansas, Crafting Content,
exhibition catalog, 2007
Tsuboniwa, wood, clay and stone installation, 2004, as reproduced in Islip Art Museum, Site Specifics '04, exhibition catalog, 2004
Harrison, Helen A., Beautiful, and No Water Required, The New York Times, July 11, 2004
Authored, Huichol Yarn Painting, Dick Blick Catalog, 2003
DeMay, Susan and McKinney, Jane Allen, Tennessee Clay Ways, Ceramics: Art and Perception,
Number 41, 2000
Big Top, earthenware sculpture, 1996, as reproduced in National Art Educators Association,
Membership Exhibit, exhibit catalog and poster, 2000.
Minton, David, Ceramic Works Transform Nature, Lexington Herald-Leader, September 28, 1997
Big Top, earthernware sculpture, 1996, as reproduced in Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
Clay Cup VI, poster, 1997.
Mo, earthenware sculpture, 1996, as reproduced in Ceramics Monthly, Volume 45, Number 6, 1997.
Mo, earthenware sculpture, 1996, as reproduced in Museum of Nebraska Art, Rendezvous,
exhibit catalog and poster, 1996.
Shuter, Marty, Larger Than Life, The Savannah Morning News, November 17, 1996
Authored, The Virtue of Necessity, NCECA Journal, Volume 16, 1995
Authored, Eva Kwong, Ceramics Monthly, April, 1994
Bornstein, Lisa, Fairfield/Johnson: Sculpture and Prints, South Bend Tribune,
January 22, 1995
Cantu, John Carlos, 4 artists, 4 differing views of contemporary visual arts, The Ann Arbor News,
September 3, 1989
Kiwi Cup and Arches, earthenware sculpture, 1992, as reproduced in NCECA, NCECA Clay National
Catalog, March, 1993
Rocky Top, earthenware sculpture, 1994, as reproduced in Monarch Tile, The Kennedy-Douglass
Center for the Arts Monarch National Ceramic Competition Catalog, 1995
Arches, earthenware sculpture, 1992, as reproduced in Susan Harris, Ceramics: Art and Perception,
Number 11, 1993.
High Frontier, earthenware sculpture, 1991, as reproduced in Robert Piepenburg, The Spirit of Clay,
Farmington Hills, MI: Pebble Press, 1995.
COLLECTIONS
The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
Geoffrey Cantor, Brooklyn, New York
Joseph W. Waz Jr., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Midge and Jerry Golner, Phoenix, Arizona
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Burger, Atlantis, Florida
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
LECTURES
Tennessee Art Educators Association, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 2024
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, 2024
Tennessee Art Educators Association, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2023
University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2022
Tennessee Art Educators Association, Memphis, Tennessee, 2022
Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2016
Tennessee Association of Independent Schools Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2016
The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2007
The University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, 1998
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1996
Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa, 1995
Univeristy of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1995
Edinboro University, Edinboro, Pennsylvania, 1993
John Blank Art Center, Michigan City, Indiana, 1992
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana, 1991
Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, 1989
GRANTS/AWARDS
East Tennessee Art Educator of the Year,Tennessee Art Education Association, 2025
Honorable Mention, "Connections," Leu Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, 2024
Achievement Award, "Emerald Spring Painting Exhibition,"Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Oregon, 2020
Golden Educators Residency Finalist, $1000 Golden Colors Award, 2018
Lincoln Center Education grant to Teaching Artist Training, New York, New York, 2014
Award of Merit, "Arts in the Airport,"Tyson McGhee Airport, Alcoa, Tennessee, 2013
National Endowment for the Arts, study grant to School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 2011
National Endowment for the Arts, study grant to Anderson Ranch Arts Center Art Educator Institute,
Snowmass, Colorado, 2009
Fulbright Memorial Fund Scholarship, travel grant to Japan, 2000
MFA, Ceramics Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
BA, Art Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1999 - present Instructor, The Webb School of Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee
2019 - present Instructor, Walter's State College, New Tazewell, Tennessee
2022 Instructor, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee
2014 Visiting Artist, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Louisiana
1995-96, 99-05 Instructor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
1996 Visiting Artist, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1994 Instructor, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
1993, 94 Lecturer, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana
1991 Resident Artist, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
1990-91 Assistant Professor, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
EXHIBITIONS
2025 "Teeny, Tiny," Hazen Gallery, Cumberland, Maryland
2024 "The Art of Culinary Show," Nicolet College, Rhinelander, Wisconsin
"Small Works," Five Points Gallery, Torrington, Connecticut
"Compact: Small Works of Art," Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana
"Shoals Art Invitational," University of North Alabama's Elaine Bailey Augustine Gallery, Florence, Alabama
"Texas National," Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas
"Connections," Leu Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee
"The Grandeur of Color," Modern Visual Arts Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
"Anything Goes Group Show," Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock, Texas
2023 "Small Works," Indiana University, Kokomo, Indiana
"Delicious," Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, California
"Let's Get Small," Create Arlington, Arlington, Texas
2022 "House Party: R.S.V.P.B.Y.O.B," Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Salem, North Carolina
2021 "Starry, Starry Night," Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, Arizona
2020 "Emerald Spring Painting Exhibition," Achievement Award, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Oregon
2019 "Small and Smaller," Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
"Artists Who Teach," Ellington-White Contemporary, Fayetteville, North Carolina
"The Big Tiny," District Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee
2018 "Journeys," Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee
2017 "Postcards from the Edge," Metro Pictures, New York, New York
"Arts & Culture Alliance National Juried Exhibition," Emporium Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee
2016 "Small Histories," Ross Gallery, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, North Carolina
"Resonance," Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan and Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn,
Michigan
"The Art of the Tomato," Art and Invention Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2015 "Small Histories," Tennessee Tech University, Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, Tennessee
2014 "Visiting Artists," New Orleans Center for Creative Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Anderson Ranch Arts Center Benefit Auction,” Snowmass, Colorado
2013 "Arts in the Airport," Award of Merit, Tyson McGhee Airport, Alcoa, Tennessee
2012 “a res cogitans,” Kristin Wigley-Fleming Fine Arts Gallery, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
2011 “Ceramics Invitational,” A.L. Swanson Gallery, Helena, Montana
“Archie Bray Foundation Benefit Auction,” Shaner Warehouse, Helena, Montana
“Anderson Ranch Arts Center Benefit Auction,” Snowmass, Colorado
2010 “Re/evolution,” A.L. Swanson Gallery, Helena, Montana
2008 “Ceramic Objects/Conceptual Material,” Fine Arts Center Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas
“Couples,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
2007 “Lineages,” Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee
2006 “50 States, 50 Artists,” Mass Gallery, Austin, Texas
“Archie Bray Foundation Benefit Auction,” Shaner Warehouse Gallery, Helena, Montana
“UT Collects,” Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee
2005 “Faculty Show,” Webb School of Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee
“No Facsimile,” Flourescent Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee
2004 “Site Specifics ’04,” The Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
"Sometimes a Great Notion," Illinois Central College, East Peoria, Illinois
2001 "Archie Bray Foundation Benefit Auction," Helena Civic Center, Helena, Montana
"Eastern Montana Clay Invitational," Custer County Art Center, Miles City, Montana
"Barefoot in the City Design Concept Exhibition," Townsend Gallery, Knoxville, Tenneseee
2000 "Sublime Servers," Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, Maryland and
Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery, New York, New York and
The James Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
1999 "Brogden, Johnson, Sabin," Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
"Tennessee Clay Ways," Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee
"Whimsical Ceramic Cup Competition," Earthen Art Works, Los Angeles, California
"Out of Clay II," Susannah Keith Gallery, Dexter, Michigan
1998 "Juried Alumni Show," Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
1997 "Todd Johnson - Recent Work," The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"The Clay Cup VI," Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
"Brogden, Johnson, Sigel: Recent Work," Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota
"Meta/Morph: Nature Reflected," Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky
"All Fired Up Clay National," Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
"Crossroads in Clay," Middletown Fine Arts Center, Middletown, Ohio
1996 "Rendezvous!," Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska
"San Angelo National Ceramic Competition," Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
"Knoxville and Vicinity: Transitions," University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
303 Gallery, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia
1995 "Johnson - Fairfield," South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana
"Group Show," M.C. Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Monarch National Ceramic Competition," Kennedy-Douglass Center, Florence, Alabama
"34th Mid-States Craft Exhibition," Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, Indiana
1994 "Ceramics Invitational," Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri
"Faculty Exhibit," Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana
1993 "NCECA Clay National," traveling, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
"Todd Johnson," Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Michigan
"Group Show," M.C. Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"New Art Forms Exposition," M.C. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1992 "The Clay Cup," Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
"Beyond the Obvious," St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota
"1992 Ceramics Invitational," Southwestern Michigan College, Dowagiac, Michigan
1991 "Ceramics Now 1991," Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California
"Brogden, Johnson, Kamm: New Faculty," Preus Gallery, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
1990 "National Art Competition," Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, Missouri
"Octagon Annual," Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa
1989 "Wyoming Clay Show," Nicolaysen Museum of Art, Casper, Wyoming
"New Talent," One-One-Eight Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
"Michigan Ceramics '89," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
"MFA Degree Exhibition," Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
"Made of Clay," Tonawanda's Council for the Arts Gallery, Tonawanda, New York
1988 "National Cup, Teapot and Vessel Show," Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana
"Earthen V," Michigan Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
"Student Exhibition," Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
1987 "Clay Art: Area Universities," Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Michigan
"Earthen IV," Michigan Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
"Out of the Earth / Into the Light," Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
PUBLICATIONS
Gustafson, Eleanor H., End Notes: Turning the Tables at MESDA, The Magazine Antiques, May/June 2022
Genocchio, Benjamin, Married to Art and to Each Other, The New York Times, April 27, 2008
Saucers with Four Face Cups (for J.J.) clay, wood and graphite sculpture, 2007, as reproduced in
Islip Art Museum, Couples, exhibition catalog, 2008
Imagine, stoneware sculpture, 2007, as reproduced in University of Arkansas, Crafting Content,
exhibition catalog, 2007
Tsuboniwa, wood, clay and stone installation, 2004, as reproduced in Islip Art Museum, Site Specifics '04, exhibition catalog, 2004
Harrison, Helen A., Beautiful, and No Water Required, The New York Times, July 11, 2004
Authored, Huichol Yarn Painting, Dick Blick Catalog, 2003
DeMay, Susan and McKinney, Jane Allen, Tennessee Clay Ways, Ceramics: Art and Perception,
Number 41, 2000
Big Top, earthenware sculpture, 1996, as reproduced in National Art Educators Association,
Membership Exhibit, exhibit catalog and poster, 2000.
Minton, David, Ceramic Works Transform Nature, Lexington Herald-Leader, September 28, 1997
Big Top, earthernware sculpture, 1996, as reproduced in Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
Clay Cup VI, poster, 1997.
Mo, earthenware sculpture, 1996, as reproduced in Ceramics Monthly, Volume 45, Number 6, 1997.
Mo, earthenware sculpture, 1996, as reproduced in Museum of Nebraska Art, Rendezvous,
exhibit catalog and poster, 1996.
Shuter, Marty, Larger Than Life, The Savannah Morning News, November 17, 1996
Authored, The Virtue of Necessity, NCECA Journal, Volume 16, 1995
Authored, Eva Kwong, Ceramics Monthly, April, 1994
Bornstein, Lisa, Fairfield/Johnson: Sculpture and Prints, South Bend Tribune,
January 22, 1995
Cantu, John Carlos, 4 artists, 4 differing views of contemporary visual arts, The Ann Arbor News,
September 3, 1989
Kiwi Cup and Arches, earthenware sculpture, 1992, as reproduced in NCECA, NCECA Clay National
Catalog, March, 1993
Rocky Top, earthenware sculpture, 1994, as reproduced in Monarch Tile, The Kennedy-Douglass
Center for the Arts Monarch National Ceramic Competition Catalog, 1995
Arches, earthenware sculpture, 1992, as reproduced in Susan Harris, Ceramics: Art and Perception,
Number 11, 1993.
High Frontier, earthenware sculpture, 1991, as reproduced in Robert Piepenburg, The Spirit of Clay,
Farmington Hills, MI: Pebble Press, 1995.
COLLECTIONS
The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
Geoffrey Cantor, Brooklyn, New York
Joseph W. Waz Jr., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Midge and Jerry Golner, Phoenix, Arizona
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Burger, Atlantis, Florida
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
LECTURES
Tennessee Art Educators Association, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 2024
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, 2024
Tennessee Art Educators Association, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2023
University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2022
Tennessee Art Educators Association, Memphis, Tennessee, 2022
Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2016
Tennessee Association of Independent Schools Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2016
The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2007
The University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, 1998
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1996
Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa, 1995
Univeristy of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1995
Edinboro University, Edinboro, Pennsylvania, 1993
John Blank Art Center, Michigan City, Indiana, 1992
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana, 1991
Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, 1989
GRANTS/AWARDS
East Tennessee Art Educator of the Year,Tennessee Art Education Association, 2025
Honorable Mention, "Connections," Leu Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, 2024
Achievement Award, "Emerald Spring Painting Exhibition,"Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Oregon, 2020
Golden Educators Residency Finalist, $1000 Golden Colors Award, 2018
Lincoln Center Education grant to Teaching Artist Training, New York, New York, 2014
Award of Merit, "Arts in the Airport,"Tyson McGhee Airport, Alcoa, Tennessee, 2013
National Endowment for the Arts, study grant to School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 2011
National Endowment for the Arts, study grant to Anderson Ranch Arts Center Art Educator Institute,
Snowmass, Colorado, 2009
Fulbright Memorial Fund Scholarship, travel grant to Japan, 2000