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Made with ♥ Mandala Creative
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In 1983, after graduating art school in Belgium, Goedele came to America and studied under Dennis Parks in Tuscarora, NV. Upon her return to Belgium, she started a studio and produced a variety of high-fired works to be sold at wholesale fairs. Goedele returned to the US again in 1989 to follow an opportunity to study with Paul Soldner in Claremont, CA. While in the US, she met and married a fellow ceramic artist and craftsman John Fahnestock. They have three grown children, and amidst life’s surprises, Goedele has maintained a studio called Yank and Flanders in southwest Colorado since 2001. For years she has fired with electricity but has recently built a gas- fired kiln and is currently enjoying the fresh, yet familiar, array of possibilities this offers her work.
Goedele makes functional work seasonally, which roots her back to her beginnings with clay and reinforces her intimacy with the material and process. The rest of the year though, she experiments with more playful and organic sculptural work.
Goedele has shown work both nationally and internationally. To this day, she is able to retain her commitment to her studio and delves happily into her projects and enjoys the surprises they dependably offer.
Education
Ah Haa School for the Arts – Telluride, CO.
Painting School, classes with John Lees, Deborah Kahn, Ron Milowicz, Pinckney Herbert, Robert Weatherford, Sam Levy 2010-2017
Painting from Within with Robert Weatherford. August 2009
Plein Air Painting with Julee Hutchinson. June 2008
The Figure in Oil with Julee Hutchinson. October 2007
Claremont Graduate School – Claremont, CA.
Special Student Program with Paul Soldner. Spring Semester 1990
Tuscarora Pottery School – Tuscarora, NV.
Summer Session with Dennis Parks. Summer 1989.
Fall Semester with Dennis Parks. Fall 1983
Institute of Craft – Mechelen, Belgium.
Glass Department with Miloslava Svobodova. School Year 1988 – 1989
Institute of Small Enterprises – Bruges, Belgium.
Glass Department with Werner Vitt. School Year 1987 – 1988.
Ceramic Workshop in Traditional Cretan Pottery and Congress of the World Craft Council – Thrapsano Crete
Ceramic Workshop. September 1985.
Academy of the Arts – Eeklo, Belgium.
Drawing Department. School Years 1986-1989,
Ceramic Department with Achiel Pauwels, Rik Vandeweghe and Ann Mortier. 1979-1986.
St Lucas Institute of Arts – Ghent, Belgium.
Ceramic Department with Marnix Hoys and Rik Vandeweghe. 1979-1983
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Telluride Gallery of Fine Art
130 East Colorado Avenue
Telluride, CO 81435
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Sunday: 12pm – 6pm
Monday: Open by appointment
