Coffee & Conversation with Deon Blackwell
đź“… Thursday, October 15th
🕛 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
đź“Ť Dunedin Fine Art Center
🎟️ Admission is $5, or free for DFAC members
Join us for Coffee & Conversation at DFAC, where art and insight blend over a great cup of coffee. Sponsored by DFAC’s Sterling Society — with coffee generously provided by Lane’s Lemonade — each session features a guest artist sharing their creative journey. Curatorial Director Danny Olda leads a Q&A to explore the story behind the artist and their work.
Following the conversation, guests will be invited to view Blackwell’s sculpture Not Worth My Weight in Salt, currently featured in DFAC’s exhibition The Only Lasting Truth. The sculpture offers a unique opportunity to witness the effects of time and material transformation firsthand. The work is slowly and progressively crumbling from the inside out through a process known as subflorescence and crystallization pressure, in which salt crystals form within the material and exert pressure that contributes to its deterioration.
About Deon Blackwell
Deon Blackwell was born in Pensacola, Florida and studied Music Performance and Studio Art at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. In 2007, Deon received his MFA in Studio Art from the University of South Florida focusing on sculpture with a primary medium of ceramics. His clay studio practice includes a wide variety of ceramic processes including: Raku, extrusion building, experimental glazing, kiln building and various decal, luster, and casting methods. Along with lectures for several ceramic institutions on his unorthodox processes, his various bodies of work have been exhibited across the country in solo galleries and private collections. Since receiving his MFA, Deon has taught art at the University of South Florida and Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver. He is currently the Adult Education Director for the Dunedin Fine Art Center in Dunedin Florida and works in his studio in Temple Terrace Florida.
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