More About Dennis

Dennis has taught as an adjunct professor of ceramics within the Art Department at Queens College and as an instructor of video art and ceramics within the Art and Art Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. In 2008, he worked as the visitor center manager for the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, CT.

Dennis has written extensively about the studio craft movement as well as about the recent emergence of D.I.Y./indie craft. Since 1998, he has been producing videos and exploring various forms of multimedia as an independent producer relevant to his interests and expertise in studio craft. From 2004 to 2008, he wrote about the various fields of craft on a blog called Redefining Craft.

In 2006, Dennis moved to New York to pursue his doctoral work and prior to that, he worked for three years and a half years as the ceramics and glass technician for the School of Art and Design at San Jose State University (SJSU). He has also founded two gallery/studio businesses; one in Berkeley, CA and one in Conway, SC. As an undergraduate art major, he attended both Ringling School of Art and Design and Clemson University. Prior to attending art school, Dennis served as a Gunner’s Mate in the US Coast Guard, where he maintained weapons systems, taught people how to handle firearms and helped conduct drug interdiction operations, fisheries patrols and illegal migrant repatriations.

Dennis grew up in the Upstate of South Carolina but has lived throughout the United States. Since leaving South Carolina at age eighteen, he has dispensed with his southern accent but can turn it on, if needed for either dramatic effect or to aid in communication with the locals.

View a Copy of Dennis’ Resume Here