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Susan Kemenyffy
Artist
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Raku Place
4570 Old State Road
McKean, PA 16426
814.734.4421 tel


www.kemenyffy.com






 
 
History
 
  Born, Springfield, MA, 1941
B.F.A., Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 1963
Studied at The Art Student’s League, Woodstock, NY 1963
Studied at the University of Illinois, Champaign 1963 -1964
M.A., the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 1964 - 1966
M.F.A. (with honors), the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 1966 -1967
Married Steven Kemenyffy, 1968
Daughter Maya born, 1970
Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant, 1973, Assistant’s Grant, 1977
President Erie Art Museum 1985-88
Chair Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 1997- 01
Chair Emeritus Pennsylvania Council on the Arts 2001-09
Chair Advisory Council Erie Community Foundation 2006-08
Trustee Erie Community Foundation 2008 -2017
Member Garden Club of America / Carrie T. Watson Garden Club
   
Collections (selected credits)
 
  The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Raku Kichizaemon, Kyoto, Japan
The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
The International Ceramic Museum, Kecskemet, Hungary
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Irvine, CA
Ubukata Industries Company, Inc., Nagoya, Japan
The Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, IL & Osaka, Japan
Rohm and Haas, Philadelphia, PA
   
Publications (selected credits)
 
 

'Drawing The Purpose', Essay: Landscape Drawing / Drawing Landscape, Published by Intellect Ltd., Bristol, UK 2008

'The First London Sketchbook', A melange of traveler's notations, edition 100, Gohr printing, Erie PA 2007

KEMENYFFY
, 2nd Edition, an 'As You Will' presentation of the artist's drawings, 2007

Leap Frog! The Ribbitting Tale,
by Vanessa Weibler Paris, ISBN 0-9709282-8-9, 2004 by the Erie Art Museum, pages 48 & 49

The Craft and Art of Clay
, by Susan Peterson, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 2003, 1999, 1996, 1992

Painted Clay, Graphic Arts & the Ceramic Surface, by Paul Scott, A&C Black, England; Watson Guptill, NY 2001

Tile Heritage, A Review of American Tile History, Volume 6 #1 Winter 2000-01, 'The Making of the East High Tile Mural', Erie, PA, Pages 21-25 by Susan Kemenyffy

Contemporary Ceramics, by Susan Peterson, Watson Guptill, USA, Laurence King (Thames & Hudson), Great Britain, 2000

Raku: investigations into fire, by David Jones, The Crowood Press Ltd, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, 1999

Contemporary Ceramic Tile Art, by DeBorah Goletz, Schiffer Publishing, 2000.2 March / April 2000, Page 27, Waterford, VA

The International Magazine of Ceramics - Ceramic Review, 'Under Fire - a critical look at contemporary Raku & its broad international interpretations' by Nicholas Lees, London, England (Issue number 178, Page 20 & 21 July  August) 1999

Surface Design, The Journal of the S. D. Association, 'Designing the World', Essay by Susan Kemenyffy, Vol. 22 No. 4 Summer 1998, Cover & Page 34

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts - Fellowship Catalogue-Introduction, by Susan Kemenyffy, Harrisburg, PA 1997,
1998, 1999

   
Civic Donations (selected credits)
 
  'The Traveler', public arts project, Ogunquit ME 2007

‘The Garden of Knowledge’: Preparatory pen & ink drawings for the Harding Elementary School Foyer Floor, Erie, PA 2003

Designer: The New Garden: Trinity Center, Erie, PA 2001-2002

‘Food in the Year 3000’: 12 mixed-media drawings (monotype, etching, fabric painting), Dining Hall, East High School, Erie, PA 2001

Who are the people that create a great public education?: Life- size Figurative Drawings, studies for Raku Ceramic Mural (Entrance Foyer), East High School (Library & Main Office), Erie PA 1999
   
International Exhibitions and Commissions (selected credits)
 
 

St. Joseph's Chapel, Multi wool rugs, Alexandria, Egypt 2007

The Square Root of Drawing', An international drawing invitational, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2006

'A Sense of Place', An 1800 square foot, 7 color linoleum drawing, installed as a theater foyer floor, at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center, Erie PA 2003-2006

The Garden of Knowledge’, A 2300 square foot, 8 color linoleum drawing, installed as the foyer floor of Harding Elementary School, Erie, PA 2002

‘Raku-investigations into fire’, Scottish Gallery, Edinboro, Scotland 2002; Rufford Craft Center, Nottinghamshire, England 2000

‘Ceramics from 5 Continents’ - Exhibition from the collection of the International Ceramic Studio (Kecskemet, Hungary)’, Royal Castle - Godoll, Hungary 2000;

Lerchenborg Slot - Kalundborg, Denmark 1999;

Hungarian Cultural Institute, Stuttgart, Germany 1998; Hufingen, Germany 1998

‘Pittsburgh Collects Clay’, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA 1998

‘Keramia Fesztival’, Vigado Galeria, Budapest, Hungary 1997

‘Nemzetkozi Szimpozium ‘97’, Tolgyfa Galeria, Budapest, Hungary 1997

   
Workshops / Lectures (selected credits)
 
  The Potters' Council, Keynote Speaker, 'Drawing: a Life', Indianapolis, IN 2008

Loughborough University School of Art & Design, 'Drawing: As You Will', Leicestershire, UK 2007

The University of Applied Arts & Crafts, ‘The Artist & Community’, Prague, the Czech Republic 2001

The International Ceramic Studio, ‘The Artist & Community’ Kecskemet, Hungary 2001

Chatham Green: The Art of the Garden Symposium: ‘The Gardens & Sculpture of Raku Place’, Chatham College Pittsburgh, PA 2001

Tile Heritage Foundation Symposium, ‘Raku Tiles’, Raku Place McKean, PA 1999 (workshop); ‘The Making of the East High Mural’ ‘, East High School, Erie, PA (lecture) 1999

Colonial Williamsburg, the National Gardening Symposium, ‘The Gardens of Raku Place’, Williamsburg, VA 1996

Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1991
   
Juried Exhibitions (selected credits)
 
  Tracey(Contemporary Drawing Issues - Sketchbook); (5 Sketchbooks: Rome; Prague; Out & About; 8 Ways & Back; Hungary), Loughborough University School of Art & Design, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK, 2002 (online exhibit)

 ‘12th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition’; San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX 1998

‘The 4th International Ceramics Competition’, Mino, Japan 1995

‘Erie Art Museum Annual Spring Exhibition’, Erie, PA 2003, 2002, 1994, 1990, 1986, 1980, 1973-1970

‘Annual Exhibition, the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA  1998, 1993-1990, 1988, 1987 (Award), 1983 (Award), 1982-1978
   
Member
 
  The American Society of Landscape Architects
The Erie Art Museum
The Garden Conservancy
The Hardy Plant Society / Mid Atlantic Group
The Nurseryman's Association of Pennsylvania
The Royal Horticultural Society
   
 
   
 
 
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