Danville Chadbourne is one of San Antonio’s most accomplished and prolific artists. A practicing artist for four decades, Chadbourne started out as a student of painting, drawing, and literature. His course was altered dramatically when he took ceramics classes as an undergraduate. While making his first clay objects, he found himself attracted to the cyclical nature of the medium, in that clay is actually decomposed granite that has been reconstituted as a soft material that, when shaped and then fired in a kiln, is turned back into stone.
Chadbourne was born in Bryan, Texas in 1949. He received a BFA in 1971 from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas and an MFA in 1973 from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. After teaching studio art and art history at the college level for 17 years at various institutions, Chadbourne quit teaching 1989 to devote himself full-time to his art. He has exhibited extensively at both state and national levels, including over 100 one-person exhibitions. His work is included in numerous private and public collections, and was featured in the November 2010 issue of Sculpture Magazine, and in the February 2010 and January 2006 issues of Ceramics Monthly.

Primarily a sculptor in clay and wood, Chadbourne works in a range of materials and in both two- and three-dimensional formats. Over the years he has created a complex body of work unified by a primal iconography and artifact-like quality emerging from a very personal and consistent formal, aesthetic and philosophical sense. He has lived in San Antonio, Texas since 1979.
In his informal lecture, Chadbourne will discuss his practice and his process. This is the third Master Artist Lecture presented by the San Antonio Art League & Museum. The lecture is free and open to the public.