I've had some kind of art project in the works since the day I was old enough to grip my first crayon. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a degree in Art Education, I taught elementary school art and then went to work as a decorator at a large pottery. The owner asked me to help with the books due to my experience in various office jobs during college, and the business grew so fast I never got out of the office. Wanting to get back to the creative process, I moved to North Carolina in 1987 to open Cady Clay Works with my husband John.
After spending several years on the "fringes" of the creative process; teaching children, doing potter bookwork, and glazing pieces thrown by my husband, I am making time to handbuild with clay, which I have always loved. I like the organic, asymmetrical, often serendipitous forms that start with a simple slab of clay. The cool feel of clay in one's hands and the joy of manipulating it toward the idea in one's mind is restful and threapeutic, and the idea that a creation of mine may be on earth long after I'm gome seems like a magical connection to the future.