Susannah Israel

Susannah Israel, 2021

Susannah Israel (born 1954) is an American sculptor, ceramicist, educator, writer, and composer. Israel has published writing since 2000,[1] and musical compositions since 2013. She lives in East Oakland, California.[2]

Early life, and education

Susannah Israel was born in 1954,[3] in New York City.[1] Israel graduated from a high school in the small village of Wappingers Falls, New York, where she was awarded the Regents Honors Scholarship to Pratt Art Institute in New York City in 1972.[citation needed]

A few years later, from 1983 to 1987, Israel attended San Francisco State University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in art and chemistry, and then returned in 1997 to acquire a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2000.[4][1]

Teaching career

In the early 1970s, Israel began teaching art and ceramics.[citation needed] In Fall 2000, Israel served as a one-term, full-time sculpture and ceramics teacher at California State University, Bakersfield.[citation needed] From 2002 to 2018, she taught ceramics and sculpture at Laney College, a community college in Oakland, California where she also served as art department co-chair.[citation needed] Israel taught art history and ceramic sculpture at Merritt College, a community college in Oakland, California from 2003 to 2018.[citation needed] Israel received a distinguished faculty service award for her teaching as an adjunct professor of art at the Contra Costa Colleges community college in San Pablo, California, from 2002 to 2006.[citation needed]

Fellowships, residencies, and collectives

Israel is the only artist from the United States to receive the Fletcher Challenge Premier Award in 1993.[5] Her winning entry, Lobo California,[5] is in the collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland, New Zealand.

Collections

Public and sited work

References

  1. ^ a b c "Susannah Israel". Ceramics Now. 2022-07-21. Retrieved 2026-05-16.
  2. ^ "Art Critic and Ceramics Professor Susannah Israel". KGPC-LP 96.9 FM.
  3. ^ a b Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection. Mint Museum of Craft + Design. 2000. Susannah Israel . American , 1954-
  4. ^ "Susannah Israel, 1994 3rd Place recipient". Virgina A. Groot Foundation. Archived from the original on February 28, 2015.
  5. ^ a b "The Fletcher Ceramic Awards". Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Further reading

  • Israel, Susannah. Sustaining the Creative Spirit. vol. 39, 2010.
  • Levin, Elaine, The Art of Making Art, "Vision," AJU Journal V. 9 Winter 2010, pp 7–9
  • Reid, Giles. 1997 Fletcher Challenge Award. vol. 45, American Ceramic Society, Columbus, 1997.
  • Rich, Chris, and Val M. Cushing. The Ceramic Design Book: a Gallery of Contemporary Work. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 1998.

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