3-Dimensional Design in Ceramics
Glenda Guion, Instructor
E-mail: Glenda Guion
Glenda Guion - 3-D Ceramics: B.F.A. 1985 Middle Tennessee State University / M.F.A. 1987 Clemson University.
Glenda Guion has served as instructor at the Greenville Museum of Art, Clemson University, and Webb School in Tennessee. She has worked as a studio assistant and as art director for Emery’s Fine Arts Gallery in Tennessee. Her teaching experience also includes slide lectures and workshops at Furman University, Greenville County Museum, Clemson University, Tri County Technical College and at 13 different Greenville County Schools. She has been chairperson for Greenville Open Studios since 2004 and has participated in the event every year since it began in 2002.
Ms. Guion’s cay work is included in numerous public collections such as the South Carolina State Art Collection, the Pickens County Museum, Columbia College, Clemson University, Sumter County Museum of Art, and Middle Tennessee State University. She has received 13 first place awards, and has been exhibited in over 100 regional shows, 19 national juried exhibitions, and 10 solo exhibitions. Her clay work has been exhibited in venues such as: Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC; Galleria Mesa, Mesa, Arizona; Danforth Gallery, Portland, Maine; The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana; Eastern Washington University, Spokane, Washington; The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee; Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah; Gallery of Artifacts and Treasures, Daytona Beach, Florida; Capital University, Columbus, Ohio; and The Museum of Modern Art, Miami, Florida.
Two reproductions of her clay sculpture have been included in the book Handbuilt Ceramics by Kathy Tripplett published by Altamont Press in 1997; three works are published in 500 Teapots, by Lark Books (Fall 2002). In 2004 she wrote and sold an article to Pottery Making Illustrated Magazine, a publication of The American Ceramic Society, titled “Making an Ocean of Clay” (July/August 2004 issue). The article features a special project designed and created by Fine Arts Center clay students for the Children’s Wing of the Greenville Memorial Hospital.
