Susan Day
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Susan Day with ceramic installation
Susan Day is a visual artist whose work is predominately constructed of ceramic.  She has an extensive exhibition history and her work has successfully straddled the worlds of contemporary craft and fine art.  Susan's works have been included in various important national and international exhibits including the Body and Society at the Embassy Cultural House in 1988; Revisited at the DIA Art Foundation in New York City, the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana; the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta; and La Chambre Blanche in Quebec City.

Susan received her early art education at Beal Art in London, Ontario. Following that she studied at Sheridan College School of Craft and Design in Lorne Park, Ontario, ARTsake in Toronto, Ontario, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax, Nova Scotia as well as a residency at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta. Please visit Susan's website for more information. 

​Earth Day 2021: Stop Extinction! Restore the Earth

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Susan Day, "Staring at the Parched Earth", Ceramic tile, 2011
Susan Day, Staring at the Parched Earth, 2011

Staring at the Parched Earth is a response to a dream I had after immersing myself in news feeds about the California wildfires. I was opening my awareness of the devastation these fires were causing to the land , the animals, and the humans.  This image played like a loop in my mind. Every year fires, often started by lightning or by a carelessly tossed  still lit- cigarette, devastate millions of acres of land. 

 International Women's Day 2021: Go; Rise and Strike

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Susan Day, Future Constellations, 2020
​Future Constellations is a hand-built coil vessel made in my studio during the first pandemic lock-down in late March 2020. I was working through some ideas and images that had been percolating in my mind. In late 2018 I was in a serious hiking accident and spent a night on a high mountain ridge waiting for a helicopter rescue. I focused on the amazing night sky and worked through the constellation maps I had memorized to pass the time and get through the pain. This vessel is now a ‘drawing’ for a large scale tile installation I am currently working on.

Susan Day's art at the Embassy Cultural House

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Susan Day, Bathroom Installation at the Embassy Hotel, from The Body and Society, 1988. Courtesy of the Embassy Cultural House Archives, The Ivey Family London Room, London Public Library
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Susan Day created her hand-made ceramic tiles for the top of this classic bar table for London artist Jean Spence who was one of the board members of the Embassy Cultural House, circa 1989. The table was originally one of the tables commonly used in the bar of the hotel.
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Susan Day, detail of ceramic table top with a letter addressed to Jean Spence.
EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS  
Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA 
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,  JoAnna Weil 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson. 
OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 
This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.

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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located in London, Ontario, Canada on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial. 
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