With thanks to my teachers...
Patrick Grills - who coped with me in high school and is one of my favorite people
Lynn Whitehead - the first to teach me to throw pots
Rosemary O'Hara - who taught me to throw again after many years
Jenny Shearer - for inspiration from her beautiful work and friendship
Richard Stratton - for reminding me not to be so shy
Michael O'Donnell - for breathing such life into clay
Sally Cleary - who shared little bits of wisdom that always echo in my head
George Sempagala - for teaching me to coil with such patience
Robert Barron - a true mentor who took me in, taught me all aspects of clay and found humour along the way
Peter Callas - a generous teacher with whom you have the capacity to get more than you give
Thank you to my MFA thesis committee: Associate Professor Pamela Karimi for considering my work with a world view, providing thoughtful insights and resources, and for leading me on a path towards academic writing, Associate Professor Elena Peteva, for her sensitivity to form, content and context, and achieving the impossible by leading me out of my own way, for Associate Professor Alan B. Thompson for bringing the human condition to our conversations through storytelling in the most provoking fashion and to my advisor, Professor James Lawton, for letting me tell this story in my way and in my time and for sensing when to press and when to allow space. This work would not be what it is without all of you.
Patrick Grills - who coped with me in high school and is one of my favorite people
Lynn Whitehead - the first to teach me to throw pots
Rosemary O'Hara - who taught me to throw again after many years
Jenny Shearer - for inspiration from her beautiful work and friendship
Richard Stratton - for reminding me not to be so shy
Michael O'Donnell - for breathing such life into clay
Sally Cleary - who shared little bits of wisdom that always echo in my head
George Sempagala - for teaching me to coil with such patience
Robert Barron - a true mentor who took me in, taught me all aspects of clay and found humour along the way
Peter Callas - a generous teacher with whom you have the capacity to get more than you give
Thank you to my MFA thesis committee: Associate Professor Pamela Karimi for considering my work with a world view, providing thoughtful insights and resources, and for leading me on a path towards academic writing, Associate Professor Elena Peteva, for her sensitivity to form, content and context, and achieving the impossible by leading me out of my own way, for Associate Professor Alan B. Thompson for bringing the human condition to our conversations through storytelling in the most provoking fashion and to my advisor, Professor James Lawton, for letting me tell this story in my way and in my time and for sensing when to press and when to allow space. This work would not be what it is without all of you.