Israel “Izzy” Davis is an artist and professor at Central Michigan University serving as the Ceramics Area Head and BFA Studio Art Chair.

Davis has exhibited work in more than 125 exhibitions including venues such as the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, the Fort Wayne Art Museum, Fort Wayne, IN, the Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, and the American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Paloma, CA.

Izzy has participated in numerous artist residencies including a project residency at the European Ceramic Work Centre, Oisterwijk, Netherlands. There he spent three weeks in their FabLab focusing on CAM/CAD fabrication to produce molds for pressure-casting ceramic paper airplanes in porcelain. Izzy also participated in a residency at Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, MT where he created work for his "Devil-May-Care" series.

He has presented more than 60 workshops and lectures nationally and internationally on his work and techniques for printing on clay. He has taught several summer intensives, including courses at Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist's Residency, Saugatuck, MI; Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC; Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN; Haystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, ME; and Officina Samos, Trieste, Italy.

Izzy sees himself as a lifelong learner. His interests reflect an innate desire to be active, practice, and progress in a creative and productive lifestyle. Investigating and teaching art are catalysts toward that end.