“Clay is a powerful artistic medium. It is as old as the earth. It is earth. It is the material I choose to use for my artistic expression.”

?Expressing herself in clay has been a driving force in Faye’s life since she was sixteen when she began studying ceramics at the Minnesota Museum of Art in St. Paul. Continuing to explore clay and art, Faye earned a Bachelor of Science degree in art education with an emphasis in ceramics at St. Cloud University. Subsequently, Faye was a high school art teacher mainly teaching pottery, in Maplewood, MN. Her classroom was a pottery studio where her love of clay and her love of teaching inspired her students throughout her thirty five years in education.

Faye has done post graduate work in ceramics at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls and at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. She has participated in workshops at the Mpls. College of Art and Design, the Edina Art Center and at La Meridiana in Tuscany, Italy. Also, Faye has studied with many studio artists including Warren McKenzie, Martha Grover and Rinny Ryan.

After moving to Bonita Springs, Faye continues to create pottery in her home studio and at Arts Bonita. Her pottery work includes both wheel throwing and hand building functional and sculptural forms.