BIO
Deighton is a ceramic sculptor, educator and is currently a staff member at The Ceramics Program at the Office for the Arts at Harvard University. He has taught at numerous institutions as an adjunct lecturer including Lesley University, Clemson University, Winthrop University, and Greenville Technical College. He completed his MFA in Studio Ceramics at Clemson University and his undergraduate studies Magna Cum Laude at Armstrong University (now Georgia Southern University) in Savannah, Georgia. He originally hails from the Far North of Alaska but has spent an equal amount of time in the Deep South of Georgia, Texas, and South Carolina. He has shown work both nationally and internationally including the ISCAEE member Exhibition in Yixing, China and ArtFields 2017 in Lake City, South Carolina where he won a Merit Award for sculpture. He completed a Residency at STARworks Center for Creative Enterprise in Star, North Carolina and conducted a co-lecture, Seeking Ethical Craft, at the 2018 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference in Pittsburgh, PA. He lives in Somerville, MA with his partner and two cats.