I received my first Master of Fine Arts degree from the New York Academy of Art in Manhattan, which consisted of a rigorous education in the human figure, both from observation and conceptual models. Upon graduating from the Academy, I was awarded a travel fellowship to the U.K. through the Royal Academy of Art in London. In order to have more concentrated studio time, and to have the opportunity to apply my academic training to my thematic concerns, I pursued a second Masters, in ceramics, at Indiana University, Bloomington, where I received a full fellowship. During my time in Bloomington I began to show nationally. Upon graduating, I recieved the Matsutani Fellowship at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, where I was a resident through the fall of 2009. Also in 2009, I recieved an Emerging Artist award from the National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). I am now based in West Lafayette, Indiana, but traveling frequently.