I am a ceramic artist and Associate Professor of Art at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA where I live with my husband David (who created this lovely site). To best give an overview of my work, I would say that the impetus for it comes from my experience of poetry. I am interested in how poets arrive at compelling poems. A good poet can take an ordinary word or image and put it together with another somewhat ordinary word or image to create a surprising feeling - a sensation in the gut that is unusual, striking, fresh and memorable. My goal as an artist is to try to do this visually - to bring seemingly disparate, ordinary, or unremarkable images together to form something memorable. Tall order, I know. But it keeps me working.