Who I am

A little background about me.

I went to college at The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD 2000-2004. There I got to dip my fingers into all the different forms of artistic expression. My focus ended up being on Sculpture. I had mixed media classes, welding classes, ceramics, stone carving and figure sculpture classes which I fell in love with. I even got to cast my last half size figure in bronze (named Ramona by my mother :)) because I was interning at The New Arts Foundry not too far from campus. That was also a great experience in itself.

I graduated after 4 years with a Bachelors in Fine Arts.

What now?

With no clue as to what would do with my BFA…I moved back home to Vermont. Little did I know a great opportunity was in store. My father was a consultant for a company called Charles Shackleton Furniture and he told me they were looking for furniture makers. I looked at him and said “I don’t know anything about making furniture!” and he explained that it would be an internship. So I gave it a shot and picked it up slowly. I worked there for almost 2 years before the cold dark snowy winters drove me away to San Diego, CA in 2006.

8 years later, 2014, I came back to VT and slowly made it back into the workshops of what is now called ShackletonThomas, in 2016. A union of two companies, Miranda Thomas Pottery and Charles Shackleton Furniture. I felt a bit rusty but slowly got my bearings back and another 8 years flew by.

To now, the end of 2024, starting my very own furniture/art business.