Artist’s Bio
Scott Supraner was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He received his BFA in Sculpture from the State University of New York, College at Purchase in 1984. After graduating, he worked for sculptors Mary Frank and Alan Siegel in New York City. He relocated to the Shenandoah Valley in 1989 where he established the Hawksbill Pottery and later moved to Charlottesville, Virginia where he became a member of the McGuffey Art Center in 2006. During these years, Scott developed a new way of working with clay and glaze as he began to create ceramic wall reliefs, combining his training as a sculptor and painter with his training as a studio potter. In 2011, he was selected to exhibit work in the offices of Senator Mark Warner as part of the Celebration of Virginia Artists and in 2010, he was commissioned to create a piece for the new Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville. His work is also in the private collection of the Heart and Vascular Center of Augusta Health in Waynesboro, VA, the Aquilino Cancer Center in Rockville, MD, and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. A full-time ceramic artist since 1990, he continues to exhibit in shows and galleries throughout the United States.