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Mugs, bowls. Cups, plates. Vases. (So many vases.) Tile and sculpture. Pendants, jewelry. A broad spectrum of experience. The range of creations may be impressively ornate or quaintly simple. Clay has that odd quality of outstanding potential I can only hope to live up to.

My goal is to create art of my craft, but also to explore the potential for making local products to compare with corporate outsourced home wares. I wish to extensively increase my craftmaking too. Lasercut, screenprint, and digital design are practices I imagine bringing to my market. Metal casting, fabrics, woodworking and more of course pique my fancy.

A vase-body lamp, or water fountain cat bow can be made out of a few extra supplies and short alterations. Such custom items may be infrequent or made to order.

Greater than anything, my reason for doing this is the encouragement I've received. At the end of the day I don't like the appearance of my own crafts. As the maker, all I see is the next project, minor faults or room for improvement. The process is what I like, but my friends' reception is what drives me.

Maybe my greatest fear in perpetuating a business is the impersonal nature to it. In the amateur era I could know each person who had my crafts. The regular gifts for birthday or homewarming along with the hardly occasional purchase is a fond memory of mine. I want the exchange to make sense, for the person on the other end to have a history I know and chances to meet again in the future.

When I'm selling a thousand things a year I won't have that privilege. At least to the lesser extent I have that privilege, I'll not take it for granted.

Happy to haggle, but please not just for the fun of it. I base my price on a $20/hour rate plus materials, and adjust over or under for the quality of the outcome. My aspiration is for most regular wares to cost between $12 and $35, as small to large shapes generally take 30-90 minutes of work in total per piece. Detailing and sculpting can easily double the amount of time.

See the Craft List below to see the range of experience had on different items.

Shy homebody or outgoing socialite. I think life is the experience of contrasts. So there is no thing I will not try once, barring a good enough reason.

Wisconsin borne. Milwaukee (0) to Juneau (3) to Madison (18) to present. Seen the castle-hill at Salzburg and touched the waters of Superior. Just to sound dramatic - I've traveled near and far on the occasion.

Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology, Philosophy. My wonder at knowing how the world works took shape over middle and high school. I imagined to work in research and die peacefully at an old age, filling in the steps between as they came. Pottery was going to be a lifetime hobby but not really an income.

Tables turn as times change. After a three year period in the Bjorling Lab in School of Veterinary Medicine I wish to discover what other path I may take down life. The opportunity will grow further away with time so I've begun now. There is potential to return to research or other work in science in the future, but I want to know what I'm capable of first.

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