Jan Talmadge Davids

EDUCATION

2022     MFA, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ (ceramic sculpture, multimedia, installation)

2018     Post Baccalaureate, California State University (CSULB), Long Beach, CA

2017      BFA, California State University (CSULB), Long Beach, CA

2013      Associate Degree in Art, El Camino College, Torrance, CA

EXPERIENCE

2025. Faculty Associate, Ceramics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2023      Faculty Associate, 3-D Design, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2022     Graduate Instructor, 3-D Design, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2022      Graduate Instructor, Color Theory, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2021      Graduate Instructor, Ceramic Survey, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2021      Graduate Instructor, 3-D Design, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

RESIDENCIES

2024      Tempe Center for the Arts, Mountain Pointe & Corona, Tempe, AZ

2019      California State University, Long Beach, Summer Intensive Long Beach, CA

2017      California State University, Long Beach, Chiusdino & Venice, Italy

2016      California State University, Long Beach, Summer Intensive, Long Beach, CA

2015      California State University, Long Beach, Chiusdino & Venice, Italy

2014      Flynn Creek, Mendocino, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022     repair(ian), Porcelain, San Pedro River, Step Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

2019     collide-a-scope, porcelain shards, Max Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, CA

2018     TELL, porcelain, Max Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, CA

2017     Hold a Letter to the Light, porcelain, Dr. Maxine Merlino Gallery, Long Beach, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Artlink’s 12th Annual Art D’Core Gala, PRISM, Installations of Arizona Black Walnuts and Cottonwood Leaves, works in porcelain, Phoenix, AZ

2025 NCECA (National Conference for the Education of Ceramic Arts), Green Task Force, In Transit, San Pedro River Wild Clay on Porcelain, Salt Lake City, UT

2025 There Is No Planet B, ecofeminism and climate, Arizona Eryngo, Endangered 2022, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts/Center Space Gallery and ecoartspace, Scottsdale, AZ

2024 Arizona Biennial, Huachuca Water Umbels from the San Pedro River series, Tucson Museum of Art. Tucson, AZ

2024 all eyes on you ll, Digging Wild Clay at the San Pedro River, eye lounge, in conjunction With Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ

2024      Storytellers, collide-a-scope, Gallery, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ

2022      Emerge mixed media Installation, Metals, glass, paper, Mesa, Arizona

2021      Porcelain/poetry, porcelain Step Gallery, Tempe, AZ

2021      Annual Art Link Juried Show, FOUND:RE Contemporary. Phoenix, AZ

2021      Nathan Cummings Award, Porcelain, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ

2021      ABBA, Artist Book Show, Awarded, Porcelain, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ

2021      This is what I know, Porcelain, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ

2020      Martin Wong Scholarship, Porcelain, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ

2020      Quarantine, porcelain Letters, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ

2019      New Graduate Show, Porcelain, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ

2018      Power of Art, Porcelain, Long Beach University Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

2017      Gorilla Invasion, porcelain, United States Pavillion, Venice Italy.

2016      Power of Art, Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum

ARTIST TALK

2024      Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona Biennial, In Conversation, Tucson, AZ

2024      Tempe Center for the Arts, Phoenix, AZ

2023      Phoenix Art Museum, Rocking S Art Ranch, Phoenix, AZ

2022      Step Gallery, Phoenix AZ

AWARDS

2020      Martin Wong Scholarship, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

SOCIAL PRACTICE

2025 Toward 2050, ecoprinted textile panel participant.

2022 –     Artists Who Vote, Social Engagement, Midterm elections, Mesa, AZ Sponsored Grant: The California Arts Council, The Jimmy Carter Foundation, The Center for Artistic Activism

2023      The Center for Artistic Activism, Training

2022      Undoing Time Exhibition, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ

2020      Artists Who Vote, Social Engagement, Presidential Election, Phoenix, AZ