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The choice of clay as my primary medium seems to come from play in mud, sand and water in the ponds of the undeveloped land that surrounded my childhood home outside of New York City.

After graduating from Oberlin College with a political science major, I lived in New York City for a few years and earned a master's degree in library science from Columbia University.

Coinciding with the birth of my first child, I began to work with clay, the material I longed to use when I was a child. After satisfying my initial desire to work on the potter's wheel, I enrolled in community college art classes and then earned a degree from the University of Maryland in studio art with a focus on sculpture.

For more than twenty years I taught clay classes in my DC area studio while sculpting and exhibiting my work. In 2004 I relocated to the small college town of Yellow Springs Ohio. My figurative sculptures, which reflect the fascination with the natural world formed in my childhood, are shown in galleries in the DC area and in the Midwest.

Relevant Work Experience
• Instructor, John Bryan Community Pottery, Yellow Springs OH 2007
• Studio Clay Artist 1981—present
• Founder and Teacher, Takoma ClayArt, Washington, DC 2001—2004
• Founder and Teacher, Alice Robrish Studio, Bethesda, MD 1981—2000

Degrees
• B.A. Studio Art, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 1981
• B.A. Political Science, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 1962

Publications
Ceramics Monthly, Upfront, December, 2003
Clay Times, The Gallery, March/April 1999
Bethesda Gazette, Review by Nancy Ungar, January 13, 1999

Awards
• Springfield Museum of Art, Clay Award, Springfield OH 2006
• Touchstone Gallery, Best of Show, Washington, DC 2004

Professional Affiliations
• Member, Ohio Art League, Columbus OH
• Member, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton NJ
• Member, Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, Washington DC
• Member, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH
• President and Board Member, A Salon, Washington DC 2002-04

Gallery Representation
Moka Gallery, Chicago IL
Light Street Gallery, Baltimore MD
Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus OH

 

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