This story looked very different until recently. I won’t jump ahead, but the plot twist has arrived.
I’m one of the lucky ones—I grew up with endlessly supportive parents when it came to my love of art and creativity. I was encouraged to take classes across the arts. I was also encouraged to change direction when intuitively I knew my creativity was pulling me somewhere new. I know, lucky.
With that support as my foundation, I enrolled in college to study art. Specifically painting and art history. Unexpectedly, and I can’t emphasize that enough: I fell in love with clay. I knew it instantly. The way you know true love.
My creative trajectory changed just like that.
I started my ceramics business, Suite One Studio in 2009 and I walk into my studio most days still in awe of what I’ve built—from dirt.
I had big dreams and no business training. I learned. I built a network and nurtured relationships. This people-centered approach was warmly welcomed in the too-cold online world.
My network grew organically and meaningfully.
Within a few years I was working with magazine editors at top global publications. I found myself at posh rooftop parties in Manhattan. I was named one of “The Country’s 100 Most Creative People” by Country Living. Countless jaw dropping, expectation defying experiences.
Anthropologie reached out to collaborate on a line of Suite One Studio ceramics.
The reality of my business became bigger than I ever dreamed. I wondered, ‘Could it be replicated to help others?’
In 2018 I cofounded The Studio Source with that goal. Again, I learned. Over six years we taught and mentored more than 1,100 artists around the world. I began feeling my creativity nudging again. Last December we closed our doors. We’d achieved our goal.
I spent most of 2025 making pottery. Intentionally small batch, searching for the fire I once had. It wasn’t gone, but it was different. Something was missing. The people.
I wanted to help other artists, to build relationships that developed mutual success. I wanted to amplify creativity and the arts… but how?
Today I sit here in my downtown office at The Arts Council of Greater Greensboro as the new Marketing Manager. The plot twist I didn’t see coming, but intuitively I know it’s exactly where my creativity is meant to be.
