Gifts of Art presents Animal/Vegetable/Mineral: Ceramics by Susan Crowell

Susan Crowell is Professor of Art at U-M, where she holds a joint appointment in the Residential College and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. A Fulbright Scholar, she studied at Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome, Italy and directed and taught in the U-M Program in Florence. Prof. Crowell’s work focuses upon pollen forms and the process of pollination, and she conducts research and exhibits her work nationally and internationally. Embracing the role of technology in revealing the natural world, she applies the science and aesthetics of botany and apiculture (beekeeping) toward the creation of ceramic sculpture, using both cast and hand built forms.