Todd lives in Santa Rosa where he has severalstudios and can be found in the yard, in the studio, or in front of theespresso machine.

Todd is the eldest son of two puppet-making school teachers. He fled the
San Fernando Valley in 1987 to attend Sonoma State University and
study humanities and ceramics. He graduated with Distinction 1992 with
a Bachelors of Art with an emphasis in Ceramics. He was an Artist In
Residence at the Kohler Company in Wisconsin in 1999 where he
learned more than he ever thought he wanted to know about toilets and
also fell in love with technique of Sgraffito. He works in ceramics,
woodblock, and metal.