The Carthage Junction Depot welcomes renowned ceramics artist, Susan DeMay for a one-day event Saturday, April 26. Her work will be on display and available for purchase from 10-4pm. Ms. DeMay will be answering questions and meeting the public at the formal reception from 1-3.
Susan DeMay produces functional and decorative stoneware pottery and other artistic forms, such as wall works, sculptural vases, and tile projects. She maintains a studio, Made by deMay, in Smithville, Tennessee with the help of a number of assistants. Her work includes a production line of tabletop wares as well as a series of art pieces. All clay work uses colorful glazes with a variety of surfaces, put together to create rich, expressive palettes and distinctive designs. Each series has evolved from many years of working with electric kilns fired to cone six.
Susan DeMay was raised on a farm in Palmyra, New York. She was in the last graduating class before the merger between George Peabody College for Teachers and Vanderbilt University. She was subsequently brought on to the faculty of the Art and Art History Department to teach ceramics part time. for nearly two years. A short break allowed for nearly a year in Europe on a Belgium Cultural Exchange Grant; and then for studies at the Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, Tennessee, and to finally establish her own studio there.
Susan returned to Vanderbilt in 1985 and settled into a dual career as a professor and studio artist. Her ceramics studio produced several production lines, most famously sold at the Smithsonian Museum Stores. Susan continued to experiment with wall works and sculptural works. In 2003 she shifted the balance of her work to full time teaching and scaled down her studio operations. She has kept active professionally by presenting and demonstrating at the National Conference of Ceramics Educators. She has written numerous articles that have appeared in national and international publications and books. Her work has been included in five Lark Book Series and books for beginners studying clay. The latest book was The Best of 500 Ceramics: Celebrating a Decade in Clay. “Sixty-four prominent contemporary ceramic artists served as jurors for this special edition, each selecting what he or she found to be the most technically masterful, stylistically inventive, and historically important pieces featured in the ceramics books of the Lark’s 500 Series.”
Susan conducts numerous glazing workshops in the region and participates in many exhibitions around the Southeast. Her work can be found in public and private collections. Susan currently teaches ceramics at Cumberland University, where she has taught on and off since 2010, when she taught the first solely clay class there.
We hope you all will join us in warmly welcoming Susan to Smith County by visiting on April 26.
Carthage Junction Depot is located at 185 Gordonsville Highway, Brush Creek, TN. It is home to monthly arts events highlighting the creative work of regional artists and craftsmen. You can find out more information about upcoming events and exhibits at the Depot on the Events tab on the Carthage Junction Depot facebook page or via Smith County Chamber of Commerce publications..
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