Susan Goldstein is past president of the KGAC and is currently the chair of the Kentucky Craft History and Education Association, serves on the board of the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, and is a member of the University of Kentucky Art Selection Committee for the new Medical Center. She is co- founder of the first Endowed Chair for the University of Kentucky School of Art and involved on many boards of civic and art organizations.

"My work is an escape from the everyday life of cognitive thinking and academic exercise. Starting off with an image, the piece develops from a sensory response to form and color that triggers further changing images that play out before me.

The bowls made of the triangular strips of clay each have their own rhythm. Each strip is randomly cut and attached. The fan shaped slab of triangles is then draped into the supporting mold and a form is created. With excitement and anticipation, the unpredictable form comes into existence… the bowl settles into a defined shape.

Choices of colors are made to be applied to the surface. The chalk like color combinations are ceramic stains. Due to the spray technique used the overlaps and placement of the color often result in aesthetic effects beyond the scope of the original concept.

The bowls with the holes are made from ceramic slabs that have holes punched out of them while the clay is a flat slab. The clay is then hung upside down over a narrow vertical cylinder which causes it to drape and fold itself into a V shaped form. It is then turned right side up when it stiffens."