Specializing in ceramics, printmaking and photography, Suanne Rayner is an art educator and artist living in the Chicago area. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a bachelor’s of arts degree in liberal arts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a bachelor’s of fine arts degree with a concentration in ceramics, and a master’s of art in teaching. She developed an intimate knowledge of mixing clay, creating glazes and surface applications for students’ use while employed as a ceramic studio assistant at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently works as a teaching artist.