Susan McGilvrey sometimes creates large-scale, brightly colored, earthenware vessels with carved layers of text, flowers and attitude using her experience teaching drawing, painting and design to bring concept and complexity to her pieces.  Sometimes, she makes domestic-scale cups, bowls, platters, and teapots. Using underglaze materials, she melds quirky, gestural mark-making and carving with her quirky, gestural wheel-throwing.

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Since accumulating an M.F.A from The Pennsylvania State University, she has maintained a studio in Benson, producing works on clay and paper that have been exhibited throughout the region.  Susan has shown groups of her artwork in the Bemis “State of the Arts” and Sheldon Art Gallery exhibitions as a recipient of two NAC Individual Artist Fellowship awards.  She was the subject of a Retrospective exhibition (accompanied by a very cool catalogue) curated by Gail Kendall at the LUX Center in Lincoln, NE. 

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Her work can be seen at Anderson-O’Brien Gallery, LUX Center, the Omaha North Hills Pottery Tour, and (by appointment) at Studio House (2935 North 56th Street, Omaha).