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Ceramic artist Susan Greenleaf did
her early art studies at Trinity University in San Antonio,
TX, Cambridge MA, New York City, and the Columbia Visual Arts
Center/Antioch University in Columbia, MD. Later she studied,
apprenticed and taught in Geneva Switzerland. She has exhibited
at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian, the Folger Shakespeare
Ann Hathaway gallery and has done two one-person shows at
the National Zoo Gallery. Over the years, Susan has had numerous
exhibits across the U.S. and in Europe and her work can be
found in collections worldwide. A Washington, D.C. commission
on the Arts and Humanities grant winner and many-time award
winner at Creative Craft Council shows; her work has been
published in Ceramics Monthly, Smithsonian Magazine, Washington
Post, the Lark Publications, and a cover story in Washington
Fine Craft Magazine. She is currently represented primarily
at the Studio 22-Fire One gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art
center in Alexandria, VA.
Susan continues to explore form and surface
texture with a strong involvement in the mysteries of the
natural world. This abiding passion for nature has taken her
in an additional direction, quite recently as a designer for
the McIntyre Tile Factory, in Healdsburg, CA, where she is
developing several new lines of sculptural tiles in botanical
themes. Her current work also includes a series of collaborations
with Rebecca Moy Behre, an old potter friend from college
days, at Greenbridge Pottery in Dayton, MD where this year's
works include a series of bas-relief horse theme vases and
mugs in celadon glazed white stoneware and porcelain slip
on red stoneware (brushed & carved).
A frequent guest instructor on the Washington
DC/ Virginia/Maryland art college and art center workshop
circuit, Susan maintains studios at Studio 22-Fire One at
the Torpedo Factory and at her home in Washington DC. Susan
is also the proud mother of two richly talented teenagers.
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