B I O G R A P H Y

After earning a BA from Southern Illinois University and an MFA from the University of Michigan, Maxwell Davis went directly into teaching at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan, and has remained in that position for the past 30 years. Throughout his tenure he has taught primarily in the Foundations, Industrial Design, and Crafts departments moving from ceramics, to glass, to art furniture and currently heads the Interdisciplinary Program at CCS.

Always on the cutting edge of his craft Maxwell Davis has been making art furniture for over fifteen years. As a professor of art at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan, Davis has spent his entire professional career in the art school environment allowing him to not only open the minds of his students, but also allowing for his continued self-exploration into alternative methods and materials.

Since Mr. Davis’s transition into the making of art furniture took place in 1989, he has exhibited in over 130 national and international shows and competitions and has been privately collected by dozens of furniture and fine art collectors including the High Museum in Atlanta, GA and the Detroit Institute of the Arts.

Maxwell Davis lives and works out of his studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan.