Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Suze Lindsay

Date and Time

• Thursday, Sep 11, 2025  5:30pm - 6:30pm

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Ceramic artist Suze Lindsay will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 11 at 5:30 p.m. at Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to everyone.

The School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students. The series is presented in collaboration with Sheldon Museum of Art.

Lindsay’s formal ceramic studies started with a two-year CORE Fellowship at Penland School of Craft, followed by earning her Master of Fine Arts degree at Louisiana State University. She then returned to Penland School of Craft as a long-term artist-in-residence.

After completing three years in residence, she focused on creating life as a full-time studio potter, setting up her studio in Penland’s rich craft community with her husband and fellow potter, Kent McLaughlin.

Working with stoneware clay, Lindsay subtly suggests figure and character by manipulating forms after they are thrown. An integral part of her work includes surface decoration to enhance her pottery forms by patterning and painting slips and glazes for salt firing. Her mark making is strongly influenced by studying historical ceramics from cultures in Japan, Crete, Chile, China and Native North American.

“I make things to entice the user to take pleasure in everyday activities, inviting participation and promoting hospitality,” Lindsay said.

She currently owns and operates Fork Mountain Pottery in the mountains of western North Carolina.