"In June 2004 I moved back to the Northwest after 25 years in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. I’m a third generation Seattleite. My late husband, Mike Steveni, and I established Dianthus Ceramics in 1986. We ran a workshop/gallery located just off Henley Street directly opposite The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. We employed apprentices, and placed Work Experience students from the School of Ceramics and Glass, now University of Central England, Birmingham (Birmingham Polytechnic). Mike was a Reader in Art Education there when he retired in 1986. He had a distinguished career as teacher, author, inventor, potter, civic leader before his death in 2000.
"We made and designed over 250+ commemorative tankards, plates, and trinket boxes in traditional cream earthenware for The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, The Swan Theatre, The Other Place, and The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. We also fulfilled commissions for The Globe Theatre, London’ The Bodleian Library, Oxford; and many private and corporate commissions throughout the UK. We specialized in small limited editions with a "no quibble" guarantee. Our individual studio pieces at Dianthus Ceramics were executed in oxidized stoneware and porcelain and are in collections worldwide.
"I trained at The San Francisco Art Institute, BFA; Mills College MFA, MA (Art Education) Birmingham."
- Dinah Snipes Steveni
- 2007 September Juried Show for Skagit Artists Together at The Depot Gallery in Anacortes.
- 2007 July juried show Northwest Craft Center, Seattle Center Nourishment: Clay for the Soul.
- 2007 April Solo Exhibition Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon.
- 2007 January-February Let Them Hang Washington Potters’ Association group show at Highline Community College.
- 2006 Contain It exhibition sponsored by The Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, Washington. Work on sale in SAC shop Monte Christo Building.
- 2006 Work on sale in museum shop at Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, Washington.
- 2005 Juried Fine Craft Exhibition, awarded prize, The Pen and Brush Gallery, East Village, New York.
- 2005 Explorations in Clay a traveling show taking place over 6 months in Seattle venues: Green River Community College, North Seattle CC, Shoreline CC galleries via the Washington Potters’ Association.
- 2005 Light Vibrations, Skagit Artists Together juried, The Other Roadside Attraction Gallery, Mount Vernon, Washington.
- 1999 Grand Prix de Ceramique, juried, Sarreguemines, France; The Tureen.