Current Events

Check out my new etsy page!

http://www.harmonyarts.etsy.com

This year I am busy working on a Master's degree at Rhode Island School of Design. It started in July and will end May 30, 2009. After I finish I'll be certified to teach art K-12 and will have a Masters in Art Education. The program is keeping me pretty busy so I don't have a lot of new artwork or sales to report. Look out for updates around November though, I'll try to enter at least one or two wintertime craft sale events.

Be sure to check out my work at these stores.

Kafe Lila in The Grant Building 250 Main St. Pawtucket, RI 401 305-3050 www.kafelila.org

The Magnificent, an Art Salon 1615 Shakespeare St. Baltimore, MD 21231 410.563.2709 www.themagnificent.net

Off Center Community Arts Project Park St. SW - between 9th and 10th Albuquerque, NM 87102 505 247-1172

Harmony's Bio

Massachusetts Age 0 - 18 Born in Worcester, MA, I live for the first 18 years of my life with the exception of a fabulous year in Manchester, England in 1983 and an even better one in Amsterdam in 1989. I didn’t make any art unless you count painting my bike yellow and red or singing in my UU Church chorus. Made it through high school relatively unscathed due to an amazing group of creative friends and decided to move to New Jersey for the next four or five years of my life.

New Jersey Age 18 - 22 I finish up a degree in Women’s Studies and Spanish at Rutgers University and get used to a very crowded city and state. A year in Mexico and Costa Rica during college is about all I need to make me want to live in a warm climate and get out of the city. I still make no art up to this point but think about it a lot.

New Mexico Age 22-24 After moving to this beautiful state where I know no one, I quit two jobs and end up serving people lots of drinks at night and spending my days taking a pottery class at Mudfish Ceramics Studio. I fall in love with the desert through clay. I throw pots every day. This quickly becomes all I want in life and I realize that I may have some latent artistic talent. I learned more from my teacher there than I think I would have in school.

Philadelphia, PA Age 24 - 28 I had enough of being alone in the desert and decided to move to yet another city where I know no one to live in a tiny house, share a tiny studio with 8 other people and make tiny art. Out comes the urban angst. I keep a job teaching ESL and make ceramic art at my studio. Whenever I can I sell my work at local craft shows, set up tables at First Friday and get random but fun commissions including making hundreds of little vases for my sister’s wedding. My most fortuitous mistake happens in my second studio while I’m working on a mosaic for friends I’m trading art for a web site with. I put some holes in small leftover pieces of tiles and start a ceramics revolution in Philadelphia. Eventually I start teaching kids ceramics at The Clay Studio and adults ceramics at my studio. I decide that I need to get a degree in art since it is apparently what I’m doing with my life. I start taking art classes at CCP and become more busy than I remember being ever. It’s fun though.

New Mexico Age 28.5 - 28.75 Again I am fickle and feeling cramped in the city and decide to go back to New Mexico via a Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. In the desert again, I have an incredible opportunity to work with a mosaic artist installing an outdoor handmade tile mosaic on a busy street across from the best place in the city to get a burrito. In my spare time I taught a class at Mudfish and made as much art and pottery as possible. I started expanding on my growing ceramics accessories business with the addition of belt buckles and find that people all over America enjoy grabbing eachother at the waist. My three months were up and I returned to Philadelphia determined to get a Master’s in ceramics and accessorize the world with clay jewelry.

Philadelphia, PA 28.75 - 30 I drove home in three days alone drinking way too much coffee just in time to sell all the stuff I made in Albuquerque at craft sales here in December. In January I signed up for three classes at CCP and started looking for work and a studio. I found an amazing studio space with Liz Kinder in a huge old textile factory building close to my house. I found some work teaching kids pottery at the Clay Studio and the Arts League and more work helping Liz produce tons of pots. Recently I installed my first mosaics in a home in West Philly. Life is good.

Still Phily, 30-32.25 I am so close to being done with classes at CCP! I love it there and everything but 50 credits and four years later, I think I'm about ready to move on. I will be applying for MFA's and Art Teacher Certification programs this coming year, finishing up course work, teaching and making as much "portfolio" work as possible. I also shacked up with my beau Owen last year and now live in a huge house in West Philly with just about everything I could ever want or need, including a studio in the basement! Life is still good.

Providence, RI 32.25 - present Last year I spent a considerable amount of energy applying to grad schools for art education and finally made the decision to attend Rhode Island School of Design for a one year program. Owen and I moved here very early in the morning on the 4th of July and slept through most of our first day! Since then it's been nothing but school work. I love 'lil Rhodie so far and can't complain about RISD either. Student teaching starts in February, wish me luck!