Dennise Gackstetter

American, b. 1961

Dennise Gackstetter received her BA in art education from the University of Wisconsin, an MA in ceramics at Northern Arizona University, and an MFA in ceramics/sculpture from USU in 1998. She has lived a migratory life. Her wanderings have taken her to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where she was an arts lecturer; to Huntington, Pennsylvania; to the Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina, where she was ceramics coordinator; and to the Miyagi Guakuin Women's College in Sendai, Japan, to be an instructor of English.