about
An artist and art historian with restless hands, I initiated multidisciplinary design studio, SOFT SKILLS, to prioritize the intersection of handmade craft and fine art.
After a decade curating museum exhibitions and advocating for artists and the centrality of art in a life well-lived, with this practice I offer softly powerful objects and spaces to encourage daily lived encounters with poetry, nuance, and stillness. Just like in a museum--a special space set apart from the everyday to hold and keep--I believe aesthetic objects and rituals can transport, providing opportunities to step into the exceptional.
A reverence for history is imbued in my forms, centering on the belief that artistic making and beholding is an eternal conversation so powerful it can stretch and slow time. Exploring nature and form, simplicity and sustainability, our objects offer small opportunities for communing with the self and others.

process
Meticulously sculpted by hand in New York, each piece is made from ceramic stoneware, inspired by forms drawn from nature, architecture, or antiquity.
Following catalytic residencies in Oaxaca, Mexico and Haystack Mountain and Watershed in Maine, many pieces come to life through ancient atmospheric firing techniques including raku and pit-firing.
These time-honored traditions collaborate with nature, marking each piece with flame and smoke so that no two pieces are ever alike...like catching lightning in a bottle.


