Making art is confusing because there is often more than one right answer. This is difficult for students, and a challenge to teach. We...

I'm reminded of the following story because Ella, my youngest daughter, is running the mile in her middle school gym class. She hates it,...

Last night, Brynn had a friend over who is working at a construction job. His task is cleaning up around the construction site, and I...

Below is a blog that I wrote nine years ago when I quit making pottery. The teapots shown in this post were never finished and I never...

When my kids were young, it's was easy to pride myself on being a good dad because the feedback I got was that I was fabulous in every...

I showed some students this piece the other day and some saw a rabbit, it reminded others of sprouting leaves and still others said it...

I started making animals in grad school when I discovered the Dogs of Colima, Northwestern, Mexico, during a pre-Columbian art history...

This semester was weird, and I know it's not quite over since we're now online, but I like closure. During the last critique on the...

I used to be embarrassed about being a Mormon missionary. I never talked about it. If you know anything about Mormonism, you know that...

There's no reason why I should be an academic. At least that's what you would say if you knew me during my high school years. Back then,...

I made these two pieces in 2016, for a two-person show titled "Ordinary Opposites" with artist Ben Ahlvers at NCECA in Kansas City,...

The Obstacle Is The Way, by Ryan Holiday is written primarily for entrepreneurs and business people, but it could just as well be written...

A few years ago, I got a text from a friend who asked "Tell me this is yours". She was thumbing through Architectural Digest and bam,...

Several years ago, while frying eggs in an iron skillet I started to admire the form of the pan. And as artists do, I thought "I should...

My sister loved her rabbit fur coat. She loved it so much that I figured I could make a killing off of rabbit pelts. There were...

In 2008, I was one of six emerging artists at Indianapolis, Indiana for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. It was...

For the past few days, we've been talking around the house about our former selves. The consensus is if we're not cringing at the way we...

It gets more difficult to try new things the more entrenched I am with what I know. Expanding my skills and learning something new is...

I'll never be able to listen to Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber (1910-1981) without thinking back to an evening with Sarah and Noel,...

My mom loved Elvis. She even went to one of his concerts in Vegas when I was a kid and brought back an LP. So it was obvious that I had...