Joan has been making pottery on and off for over 40 years, since high school where she had a wonderful pottery art teacher. She attended school for chemistry for a few years before attending the School of Visual Arts in NYC where she obtained a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts, focused on drawing and installation type sculpture. She always came back to pottery though, for its zen like practice; “just” making beautiful utilitarian objects, unburdened by having to consider the meaning behind them. Recently retired from years of teaching in Santa Fe public schools while raising her 2 sons, she is enjoying teaching hand building and wheel throwing classes, while delving back into her own pottery making practice once again.