Currently teaching at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, Susan Dewsnap exhibits her ceramic work nationally and internationally with awards from The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Biennial, the World Ceramic Biennale Korea International Competition, and Best of Show in the Strictly Functional Pottery National Exhibition. Her work is currently represented in Schaller Gallery, The Clay Studio in Philadelphia and Akar Design. She shows in Maine with the June Fitzpatrick Gallery, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Dow Street Gallery and Craft.
Susan Dewsnap studied at The Pottery Lab studio in Boulder, Colorado and intensive workshops at Haystack Mountain School in Maine and The Penland School in North Carolina. Growing up in Peterborough, New Hampshire, she received a BFA in painting from the University of New Hampshire and a MFA in ceramics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she also taught from 2008 through 2012. Susan’s experience also includes leading ceramic workshops at Penland School and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.