I was born and raised on a farm in eastern Montana. I have since worked and lived in seven other states and spent a year and a half on the island of Crete while in the Air Force.

I earned an MA and an MFA from the University
of Wyoming and have recently retired from thirty years of teaching art at Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska. I continue to produce sculpture made mostly from welded metal, stone, wood and ceramics which are considered for commissions and shows. The contrasting forms are meant to “enjoy” their newly assembled places which might suggest that the implied image is created to show off or to celebrate, much like a male bird would. I enjoy the implications of the relatively small head, supported by the very thin rod. It helps to suggest that this creature’s proud display will last only for a short time, just like the utilitarian life of the parts that make it up.