Denise Woodward-Detrich is the Director of the Lee Gallery in the Department of Art at Clemson University. Woodward-Detrich’s creative research investigates the relationship between the defined parameters of functional objects and the interpretive aspects of visual and tactile memory. Her investigation into function is positioned on the visceral experience of touch, on the relationship between form, surface and function and on the layered memories gained through the accumulated experience of using utilitarian forms.
Before joining Clemson University Ms. Woodward-Detrich served as a Master Instructor at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She received her MFA in Ceramics at the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University and has maintained an active exhibitions record having been invited to participate in many national exhibitions. Ms. Woodward-Detrich has given workshops in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Florida, was the juror for “Artist of the Upstate”, Greenville, SC and has been included in publications such as Wheel Thrown Pottery by Don Davis, Best of Pottery, published by Rockport Publishers and Studio Potter magazine. Recently she curated the exhibition “Pretty Tough” which examined the ways in which artists look beyond the façade to explore the by-products of a globally connected world.
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
2020 - 1209 Clemson Curates, Creative Inquiry, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC
2015 – 4750 Senior Exhibition Internship, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
2013- 2020 3350 /4450 Creative Inquiry, Public Art Implementation, Clemson, SC
2012 - 2013 420 Creative Inquiry, Public Art Implementation, Life Sciences Building, Clemson University
2011 - 2011 489 Art and Art History Internship, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
2009 - 2013 490 Directed Studies, Gallery Internship, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC
2006 - 2006 Lecturer, 473 Senior Seminar, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
2000 - 2001 Master Instructor S.C. Governors School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville, SC
1996 - 2000 Lecturer, Freshman Design, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
1996 Visiting Instructor, Greenville County Museum of Art, Museum School, Greenville, SC
1992 - 1993 Visiting Instructor, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019 Juror, Watt Center for Innovation & Technology, Digital Showcase, Student Competition, Clemson, SC
2017 Juror, Artist of the Upstate, Artisphere, Greenville, SC
Juror, Greenville County High School Art, Artisphere, Greenville, SC
2014 Juror, The Dialogue Center, Columbia, SC
2012 Juror, Fine Arts Center, Student Exhibition, Greenville, SC
2011 Juror, Festival of Flowers, Greenwood, SC
Publications Juror, Southeastern Museum Conference, Greenville, SC
Juror, Pendleton Spring Jubilee, SC
2009 Juror, Bridges, Virginia Tech Alumni Exhibition, Blacksburg, VA
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2020
Lip Service, Schacht Gallery, Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Saratoga, NY. (Aug. 22 - Sept. 26)
2019
Interpretations in Clay, Monsanto Gallery, Lander University, Greenwood, SC
10th Annual Visions In Clay, LH Horton Jr. Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College
Not Big 5, M.S. Rezny Gallery, Lexington, KY
Plate & Platter, Carbondale Community Arts Artspace, Carbondale, IL
SIP, Savannah Clay Community, Savannah, GA
Tea Time, Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Clay: A Southern Census, Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Off The Table: Clay for the Wall, Missouri Western State University, MO
Twin Cups: National Ceramics Exhibition, Missouri Western State University, MO
12th International Texas Teapot Tournament, Clay Arts Museum and Education Organization (CAMEO), Baytown, TX
2018
World Aids Day Art Show & Sale, Indigo Flow and Art Studio West Village of Greenville, SC
Atmospheric, Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Collegiate Invitational Art Exhibition, Spartanburg County Library, Spartanburg, SC
delecTable: The Art of Fine Dining, The Art Student League of Denver, CO
Thrown and Altered 2018, Clay Arts Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
SC Clay Exhibit, Kassab Art Gallery, Hyman Fine Arts Center, Francis Marion University, SC
Department of Art Faculty Exhibition, Lee Gallery, Clemson University
2017
Battle of the Bowls, Academy Center for the Arts, Lynchburg, VA
The Almighty Cup Show, Gandee Gallery,St. Fabius, NY
5th Annual Cup Show & Sale, Studio 550 Art Center, New Hampshire
King Snake Press Prints, 1998-2017, Upstairs[artspace] Gallery, Tryon, NC
2016
9th Annual Beyond the Brickyard Juried Exhibition, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
Out of the Ashes, Morean Center for Clay, St. Petersburg, FL
4th Annual Cup Show & Sale, Studio 550 Art Center, New Hampshire
The 22nd Annual Nellie Allen Smith Juried Pottery Exhibition, Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, NC
The Clay Cup: Vessel, Icon, Canvas, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Columbia, MO
Designed to Dine, Tea+Art, Houston, TX
10 x 10 x 10 Mighty Tieton, Tieton Arts & Humanities, Tieton, WA
International Cup 2016, The Clay Studio of Missoula, MT
CURATORIAL
2019
Pretty Tough, January 21-March 5, 2019, Lee Gallery. Artists include Michael Ashkin, Cynthia Camlin, Julie Dermansky, Joelle Dietrick, Diane Fox, Stacy Isenbarger, Lori Larusso and Michael Marks. Pretty Tough examines the ways in which artists look beyond the facade to explore the by-products and effects of a globally connected world. Works in the exhibit investigate the seemingly traditional roles of nature, culture and the built environment but peer in from the edges defining alternative narratives to the conventional conditions of domestic, digital, economic and environmental histories.
Immaterial Artifacts: The work of Tom Schmidt, August 26 – October 17, 2019, Lee Gallery, Clemson University. Craft media has always been at the forefront of developments in new technology. The work of Tom Schmidt represents a spectrum of sculptural objects which attempts to tease apart the amorphous state of ceramics and craft in a post-digital age.