{"id":57548,"date":"2007-03-07T09:28:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T15:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=57548"},"modified":"2021-03-23T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:30:11","slug":"susan-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/susan-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/susan_harris.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-57549\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/susan_harris.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a>Susan Harris is Associate Professor of Art + Design at Southern Utah University, where she has taught ceramics and sculpture since 1996. Prior to that, she was Artist-in-residence at the Alliance for the Varied Arts in Logan for 17 years and is a Fellow of the Council for NCECA. Her work is currently on view in four shows nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><em>What hangs above your mantel?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My fireplace, down in the family room, is made of genuine Utah wonderstone, so nothing hangs there. But upstairs on my antique sideboard sits, front and center, a &#8220;Sterility Figure&#8221; sculpture by Georgia artist Don McCance. I&#8217;ve always thought that it can&#8217;t hurt to have such a talisman in a state with our explosive population growth.<\/p>\n<p><em>What is the most memorable exhibit you&#8217;ve seen recently?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Three weeks ago I was dazzled by Woody Shepherd&#8217;s astonishing, colorful show of very large landscape paintings on exhibit upstairs at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art in Logan. He&#8217;s most definitely an impressive artist to keep an eye on!<\/p>\n<p><em>What is your favorite building in Utah (and why)?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I live in Cedar City, and our most unexpected and improbable building just happens to be my favorite: the lighthouse at the south I-15 exchange. Although incongruent here in the desert, the sight of it affords me a chance to reflect on my growing up years on Long Island and my many visits to Fire Island and Montauk Point, and all the lighthouses in-between the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Harris is Associate Professor of Art + Design at Southern Utah University, where she has taught ceramics and sculpture since 1996. Prior to that, she was Artist-in-residence at the Alliance for the Varied Arts in Logan for 17 years and is a Fellow of the Council for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1575,"featured_media":57549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[360],"class_list":["post-57548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on_the_spot","category-visual_arts","tag-susan-harris"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/susan_harris.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 06:02:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57550,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57548\/revisions\/57550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}