About me
I grew up in the piedmont of South Carolina. For the first four years of my life I lived in a house that my parents built themselves. I spent my childhood doing plenty of normal kid things like playing in the woods near my house and trying to become an expert at every little thing that popped up (ok, I still do that). Although people always told me that I should be a lawyer because of how much I loved to argue, I had decided by middle school that I was going to be an architect.
My eighth grade art teacher set me on a different track, however. She recommended that I apply to the Fine Arts Center, a magnet school for the arts in Greenville, SC. The application asked in which courses was I most interested. Metal Design was an option that I had never even heard of before, but I decided that it seemed better than the other choices. I immediately went home and started on a wire sculpture because I mistakenly thought that I would have been expected to have previous experience in metals.
I was accepted to the Fine Arts Center and began my first class in metalsmithing. Immediately, I was entranced with this new medium. And the rest, as they say, is history...
After graduating from high school, I attended East Carolina University, where I majored in metal design. I was very fortunate to study under a large and diverse group of faculty; Linda Darty, Bob Ebendorf, Mi-Sook Hur, and Tim Lazure. Currently I am pursuing a master's degree in metalsmithing at the University of Kansas.