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Cindy has been an ongoing student potter since 1990. Her carved pots and petroglyph rattles were featured at Salem’s Bush Barn Gallery for five years. Then she began selling Pilgrim Flasks at Renaissance Faires in Oregon. Her current fascination is to make pots that seem to dance or float above the surface of the table.

Cindy has been active in several civic organizations, including the board of Very Special Arts Oregon (an international non profit organization celebrating the power that the arts have made in the lives of individuals with disabilities) and SOLV (she organized the “Down By The Riverside” clean-up of Wallace Marine Park). She taught boater safety in the Salem area from 1999 to 2006.

Ken was hired at South Salem High School in 1972 and spent the next thirty years in the same classroom teaching pottery. He also taught photography and other art subjects during his years at South. He was a member of the Oregon Art Education Association for 22 years, with 8 years in leadership positions of Treasurer, President Elect, President and Past President.

Since retiring, Ken spends about 20 hours a week at the Willamette Art Center making his large vases. He sells his work online at TheVaseMaker.com, at the Elsinore Gallery and the Camas Gallery (the Bush Barn) in Salem, and at the 250 South Main Gallery in Independence, Oregon.