Shortly after my birth in Americus, GA in 1980, my family moved to New Orleans where my father began schooling at the theological seminary. New Orleans would be my home for seventeen years which afforded me a rich and diverse atmosphere to develop my artistic mindset. My family and I moved back to Georgia prior to my senior year of high school and resided in the Metro Atlanta area.

Upon graduating high school, I enrolled at my father’s alma mater, Georgia Southwestern State University, which happens to be located in my birth place. Near the end of my sophomore year of college, a friend of mine introduced me to the glassblowing studio. Having never seen a studio glass artist at work, I was unaware of how vast of a medium for art glass really was. After viewing an hour of one of the master artist at work, I was drawn to the glass. I enrolled in the next offering of the class and took to it quickly spending all of my free time studying the works of master studio glass artists such as Lino Tagliapetra, William Morris, Fritz Dreisbach, Dante Marioni, and many more.

One of my passions became glass and the endless exploration of the material as an art medium.
In December of 2003, I graduated with honors and a BBA in Accounting. Leaving behind a lucrative job offer, I quickly went back to school pursuing a BFA in Fine Arts. With my BFA only a two classes away I plan to pursue a Master’s in Fine Arts over the next 2 years to explore glass and other mediums more extensively.

Glass has become that thing I can’t see myself in the future without. Often an artist finds a material that they connect to and it’s almost like an extension of their body, glass is that material for me.