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Nurielle Stern (MFA Alfred, 2014) works in sculptural ceramics. Her commissioned installation, "Fable", is on view at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, until November 2020.  Stern is the 2019 recipient of the Winifred Shantz Award for Canadian Ceramics, and is currently  a resident artist at the CSULB Center for Contemporary Ceramics.

Stephanie Hanes received an MFA in ceramics from RISD and a BFA from NSCAD University. Stephanie was an invited artist at the CSULB CCC with several residencies and shows throughout North America and Europe including the c.r.e.t.a Rome Gallery and Lefebvre et Fils Gallery in Paris.

Ling Chun is a beauty school dropout from Hong Kong and transposed her passion for hair into becoming a ceramic artist. She received her MFA16’ in ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design and completed her residency at Archie Bray afterward. She continues her studio practice at Pottery Northwest.

Ruth Easterbrook is a studio artist and teacher who is currently one of the artists in residence at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. She has been the resident artist at the Harvard Ceramics Program and Anderson Ranch Art Center. Ruth earned her MFA at Alfred University (2019) and BFA at Syracuse University (2007). Her time at Penland School of Craft spring concentration (2014) and as an intern at Anderson Ranch Art Center (2015) were important for her personal growth. Her work is in various collections across the US including the Alfred Ceramics Art Museum.

"Yeonsoo Kim was born in Haenam, South Korea. He is a long-term resident artist at Morean Center for Clay. Kim earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics at Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia in Athens, GA."

Cathy Lu is a ceramics based artist that manipulates traditional Chinese art imagery and presentation as a way to deconstruct the assumptions we have about Chinese identity and cultural authenticity. By creating ceramic based sculptures and installations, she explores what it means to be both Asian and American, while not being entirely accepted as either. Unpacking how experiences of immigration, cultural hybridity, and cultural assimilation become part of American identity is central to her work.

Bruce Dehnert received his MFA from Alfred University and has taught at universities in New Zealand, Malaysia, and the United States. The author of the best-selling book, “Simon Leach; Pottery Handbook,” Dehnert is a kiln designer and builder, and is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics. He currently is Head of Ceramics at Peters Valley School of Craft.

"Matthew Katz has a B.F.A. from Alfred University and a M.F.A. from The University of Colorado-Boulder. Matthew teaches ceramic materials for artists at Alfred University as well as Harvard University, The Rhode Island School of Design, The Herron School of Art, Hood College, Montana State University, and others. In his time Matt has dedicated himself to unveiling the myths and mysteries of glazes and clays."

Emeritus Fellow, Australian National University School of Art and Design and Council Member, International Academy of Ceramics. She has written two best-selling books on glazes "Glazes for Australian Potters" and "More Glazes for Australian Potters", co-authored the "Handbook for Australian Potters", as well as contributing to most international ceramic journals.

"Steve is a Professor Emeritus from JSU, AL and studio artist. He received his MFA from Alfred and BFA from U of IL. He has been awarded two, Alabama State Council on the Arts grants and a Southern Arts Federation / NEA Fellowship in Crafts. He has hosted the AL Clay Conference four times and participated with NCECA as a lecturer, panel moderator, Topical Group Discussion Leader, and Glaze DR. He conducts numerous workshops and actively exhibits his artwork. Steve recently self-published “Glazes From a Potter’s Perspective”."

Dr. William Carty retired from Alfred University after 27 years as a Ceramic Engineering professor. He taught engineering courses and still teaches “Ceramic Science for the Artist” and industrial short courses. He is a world-recognized expert and consultant to the ceramic industry and continues to conduct research at AU.

Born in Chicago, 1948, Richard Notkin received his education at the Kansas City Art Institute (BFA, 1970), and University of California/Davis (MFA, 1973). A full-time studio artist, Notkin lives in Vaughn, WA. For over five decades, he has created work in ceramic sculpture infused with progressive social and political activism.

Isaac Scott is a ceramic artist, curator, photographer, and organizer from Madison, WI who is currently living in Philadelphia, PA. Isaac is an MFA candidate at Tyler School of Art and Architecture and plans to graduate in Fall of 2021. His ceramic work has been exhibited around the country including Design Miami 2020 and at the 20219 National Conference for Education in the Ceramic Arts in Minneapolis. Isaac’s photographs of the 2020 Uprising in Philadelphia were featured in the June 22ndth, 2020 issue of the New Yorker. In August of 2020 Isaac completed his first mural alongside collaborators Gerald A. Brown and Roberto Lugo. The Stay Golden mural is located at 33rd and W Diamond St. in Philadelphia, PA.

Dr. Briggs’ interest in art and spirituality began while teaching K-12 art. Creatively he makes ceramic pinch-formed vessels. Dr. Briggs is an Artist-Teacher at the Massachusetts College of Art and an Artist in Residence at the Harvard Ceramics Program. His PhD is from Penn State and his MFA from MassArt.

Ben Carter is a ceramic artist and educator based in Farmingdale, NJ. He received his MFA in ceramics from the University of Florida in 2010. He maintains a studio, teaches workshops and exhibits internationally. He is the creator and host of the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler podcast.

My creative practice in ceramics investigates the cultural rituals, particularly threshold rituals, undertaken by the South Asian ethnic community as a means to translate the expression of the diaspora. The ceramic installations serve as a gesture and an invitation to the broader diverse community to consider the dislocation of migrants.

Heather Nameth Bren is a studio artist who specializes in ceramic sculpture and installation. Conceptually based, Bren explores ideas of truth and perception through her ceramic and mixed media installations. She has worked with ceramic sculpture for over twenty years and has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally. In addition to Bren's studio practice, she is an Associate Professor of Art & Design at Bethel University in Minnesota. She also serves on the executive board of trustees at Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, MN.

Virginia Pfau Thompson teaches Ceramics & Sculpture at Cochise College in Sierra Vista, AZ. Having studied and worked abroad in the UK, Japan, and Taiwan and traveled widely, she strives to globalize the rural community college studio art classroom. She makes good teapots and even better pots of tea.

Michigan based ceramic artist and painter, Corrin Grooms’ art focuses on Black femininity, using a surreal expression to confront mental health in the Black community. She earned her BA from Saginaw Valley State University in 2018 and is an active exhibiting artist.

Jasmine Baetz is an artist who works with others to interrogate space, representative objects, and assumptions. She facilitated a community public art sculpture project to commemorate Los Seis de Boulder, the six Chicanx student activists who were killed in Boulder in 1974.

James Bester is an interdisciplinary artist whose main focus is ceramic art. His recent work focuses on the African “Nigger Jugs”, that originated in the Edgefield District of North Carolina during the 1890’s.

Working across ceramics, earth-based mediums, and both durational and group performance, taty hernandez examines and challenges the colonial legacies left on eurocentric understandings of knowledge production, memory, and history. Taty builds and explores narratives of collective histories and liberation-based collective futures.

Isaac Scott is a ceramic artist, curator, photographer, and organizer from Madison, WI who is currently living in Philadelphia, PA. Isaac is an MFA candidate at Tyler School of Art and Architecture and plans to graduate in Fall of 2021. His ceramic work has been exhibited around the country including Design Miami 2020 and at the 20219 National Conference for Education in the Ceramic Arts in Minneapolis. Isaac’s photographs of the 2020 Uprising in Philadelphia were featured in the June 22ndth, 2020 issue of the New Yorker. In August of 2020 Isaac completed his first mural alongside collaborators Gerald A. Brown and Roberto Lugo. The Stay Golden mural is located at 33rd and W Diamond St. in Philadelphia, PA.

Kwok Pong Tso is currently an Assistant Professor of Art in Ceramics at Washburn University. Pong originally was born and raised in Hong Kong and decided to experience USA. In 2009 he completed his Bachelor of Fine Art from Northwest Missouri State University and completed his Master of Art and Master of Fine Art from the University of Iowa in 2013.

Veronica Watkins received a BFA from Northwest Missouri State University in 1996; an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2000. She resides on a farm in Maryville Missouri where she takes care of her family, maintains a studio practice and is the Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Northwest Missouri State University.

"Magdolene Dykstra is an Egyptian-Canadian artist based in St. Catharines, Ontario. She uses raw clay sculptures and installations to meditate on the multiplicity of the human race. Her research includes sublime philosophy, Abstract Expressionism, environmental concerns, and an interest in secular Buddhism. Magdolene received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Natalia Arbelaez is a Colombian American artist, born and raised in Miami, Florida, to immigrant parents. She received her BFA from FIU and her MFA from OSU. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in museums, galleries, and included in various collections, such as the Everson Museum and MAD Museum.

"Inspired by Islamic architecture and human vulnerability, Toronto-based artist Habiba El-Sayed holds an Advanced Diploma from Sheridan College in Ceramics (2014) and a BFA in Ceramics from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2016). She recently completed a residency at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto and her work has been shown across North America."

"Heidi McKenzie is a Toronto-based ceramic sculptor and potter, arts journalist and curator who is dedicated to the craft of re-invigorating modernism in our times. Inspired by her mixed Indo-Trinidadian and Irish-American ethnicity, her work addresses issues of race, identity and belonging. Her practice seeks to transcend Eurocentricism through abstraction."

Bethany Benson holds an M.F.A. in Ceramics from the University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL and a B.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA. She is Professor of Art and Chair of the Art and Art History Department at Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA.

I am an Associate Professor of Art at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY where I teach and make ceramics. I have an M.F.A in ceramics and craft history from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and a B.F.A from Alfred University in Alfred, New York.

Cindy Leung received her BFA from Queens College and is an MFA candidate at the University of Florida. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Clay Art Center and the Morean Arts Center. Leung was awarded a 3D ceramic printing teaching assistantship at Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in China.

Michele is the founder and executive director of Craigardan, an interdisciplinary residency center in the Adirondacks of New York. Craigardan’s place-based focus on arts and agriculture led to her strong interest in systems change, particularly food systems, and to her reliance on the power of collective creativity for good.

Penn State (BA); Indiana University (MFA). Christa Assad maintained a ceramics studio for 17 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, has traveled the world in pursuit of pottery — yet nowhere stokes her senses like Baja Sur California, Mexico, where she now resides with the co-founder of "Taller de Terreno," Kevin Wickham.

Corrie Bain is a ceramic sculptor from the UK. She studied Ceramics and Applied Arts at Edinburgh College of Art and Alfred University. As a member of the International Academy of Ceramics, she exhibits her work worldwide. She owns an International Ceramics School in Barcelona, where she runs 3-month intensive courses, and artists residencies.

Lori-Ann Touchette is an art historian/archaeologist. In Rome since 1997, she currently teaches for the School of Visual Arts Rome Program. Author/editor of books and articles on Greek and Roman art, the 18th - century Grand Tour, historical and contemporary ceramics. In 2012, she co-founded C.R.E.T.A. Rome with Italian artist Paolo Porelli.

Filsoofi is a multi-disciplinary artist and in her work she utilizes ancient and contemporary art media – ceramics, poetry, ambient sound and video – to address issues regarding human condition from a personal perspective. Filsoofi is Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Art.

Dr. Briggs’ interest in art and spirituality began while teaching K-12 art. Creatively he makes ceramic pinch-formed vessels. Dr. Briggs is an Artist-Teacher at the Massachusetts College of Art and an Artist in Residence at the Harvard Ceramics Program. His PhD is from Penn State and his MFA from MassArt.

As a full time self employed ceramic artist in Cleveland, Ohio, Angelica Pozo divides her time between public art commissions, studio work, writing how to books, teaching ceramic workshops, and artist teaching in K-12 schools, often serving as an artist-in-residence on large participatory tile/mosaic projects in school and community settings.

Salvador Jiménez-Flores is an interdisciplinary artist born in México. In his work he explores the themes of colonization, migration, “the other,” stereotypes, and futurism. Jiménez-Flores served as Artist-In-Residence for the city of Boston, Harvard Ceramics Program, Office of the Arts at Harvard University, and Kohler Arts Industry. Jiménez-Flores is a recipient of Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants and The New England Foundation for the Arts, and Threewalls’ RaD Lab+Outside the Walls Fellowship Grant. He is an Assistant Professor in ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jennifer Ling Datchuk is an artist born in Warren, Ohio and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her mother came to this country in the early 1970s from China; her father born and raised in Ohio to Russian and Irish immigrant parents. Beyond initial appearances, the layers of her parents’ past and present histories are extremely overwhelming and complicated – a history of conflict she has inherited and a perpetual source for her work. Trained and educated traditionally in ceramics, her practice evolved from sculpture to mixed media as she began to focus on domestic objects and the feminine sphere. Handwork and hair both became totems of the small rituals that fix, smooth over, and ground women’s lives. Through these materials, she explores how Western beauty standards influenced the East, how the non-white body is commodified and sold, and how women’s – globally, girls’ – work is still a major economic driver whose workers still struggle for equality. She explores the global migrations of beauty, material culture, intersectionality, labor, identity, and personal history. She holds an MFA in Artisanry from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a BFA in Crafts from Kent State University. She has received grants from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, travel grant from Artpace, and the Linda Lighton International Artist Exchange Program to research the global migrations of porcelain and blue and white pattern decoration. She was awarded a residency through the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum to conduct her studio practice at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany and has participated in residencies at the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China, Vermont Studio Center, European Ceramic Work Center in the Netherlands and Artpace in San Antonio, Texas. In 2017, she received the Emerging Voices award from the American Craft Council and was named a United States Artist 2020 Fellow in Craft. She is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Texas State University and lives and maintains a studio practice in San Antonio, Texas.

Shamai Sam Gibsh educated in the USA and Israel. A member of the International Academy of Ceramics. Gives multiple workshops in his unique alternative firing techniques all over the world. Participates in many residencies, exhibitions. His art is in collections of multiple Museums & features in Galleries, magazines, books and publications.

Adam Posnak (b. 1973) grew up in Macon, Georgia. His great- grandfathers were blacksmiths, his grandfather a woodworker, and his mother is a studio potter. Posnak holds an MFA from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and a BA from Macalester College, St. Paul, MN. Posnak is an Instructor of Ceramics and Foundations at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Eric Andre was born and raised in Akomadan, the Northern part of Ashanti Region, Ghana, and is currently MFA Student in Ceramics, School of Art, the University of Arkansas. Eric's work is concerned with interior and exterior decor focusing on conceptual sculpture pieces and mixed-media artifacts.

Japheth Taah Asiedu-Kwarteng (b. April 4, 1987, Ghana) is an MFA candidate at Illinois State University and former Principal Technician at KNUST Ceramics, Ghana. As an artist, Japheth produces works (largely inspired by traditional Ghanaian symbolism) that address social issues within the rich Ghanaian cultural and traditional values.

Professor Jeannie Hulen is Associate Dean in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. She currently has ongoing research in West Africa following her 2018-2019 US Fulbright Scholar post at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.

Samuel Nortey is Senior Lecturer and a practicing Ceramicist. He has researched widely on developing the frontiers of pottery production and contemporary art issues in Ghana. Nortey holds a PhD in African Art and Culture and has participated in a number of conferences and group exhibitions.

Jean-Pierre Larocque. Montreal, Canada 1953. MFA Alfred (1988). Teaching: California State at Long Beach, Alfred, Athens GA, University of Michigan, Emily Carr BC. Retired from Concordia U in 2017. The Gardiner Museum presented Ceramics and Drawings in 2006. A 2019 retrospective at The 1700 LaPoste was accompanied by an hour long documentary.

Hideo Mabuchi teaches and conducts research as a Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. In the studio he focuses on thrown-and-altered vessel forms for atmospheric firings. He is working on new teaching approaches that integrate ceramics with scientific and humanistic studies to bring craft into the core of liberal undergraduate education.

John Hosford is Art Librarian at Samuel R. Scholes Library of Ceramics at Alfred University. His main responsibilities are library instruction and managing the archives at the New York State College of Ceramics. He received his MLS from University at Buffalo in 2012. He is Also a Captain in the Alfred Fire Department.

Vermont-based ceramic artist Lauryn Axelrod’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, tea rooms and restaurants around the globe. In 2019, she created The Shard Project as a community-based project to stimulate conversation around issues of climate change and to help communities develop creative solutions to address problems.

Ashley Fuchs is a designer and Assistant Professor at Montana State University. Currently she is exploring conceptual work and pedagogy in letterpress printing. Fuchs seeks out and experiments with new materials, mediums, and various fabrication techniques. This translates to her teaching philosophy which emphasizes interdisciplinary making through collaboration.

Lauren Duffy received her MFA from Indiana University and is an Assistant Professor of Art at Northland College on Lake Superior in Ashland Wisconsin. She has a socially engaged, community driven art practice involving creating collaborative, multi-media portraits of individuals and the groups of which they are a part.

Stumbras was born in Chicago, Illinois. He studied at St. Olaf College, where he received a BFA and a BS in 2007. Stumbras received an MFA in Ceramics from Louisiana State University in 2017. Stumbras has exhibited work nationally and internationally. He is currently living and working in Kansas City.

For the last 48 years, I have been involved in supporting the arts. These efforts have been fo-cused on the creative art making process. My objectives have been to support artists by devel-oping & providing studios, stipends & exhibitions opportunities while fostering critical dialog re-views. My goal is to provide the support & freedom to make things happen, to do something new.

Barbara Anderaos is a ceramic artist, living and working in her studio “Objeto Cerâmico” in Santos, SP, Brazil. She has a BA in Ceramics from Universidade Federal de São João Rei and, as an exchange student, expanded her researches at NMSU (USA) and KADK Bornholm and as resident artist at Cub Creek Foundation.

Nataliya Zuban was born in 1992 in Opichnia, Ukraine. She received both her MFA and BFA from the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Ukraine in 2015 and 2013 respectively. She has recently completed a short-term residency at the Ceramic Creative Center, at the Clayarch Gimhae Museum, South Korea and A-I-R program of the Fule International Ceramic Art Museums in Fuping, China. In 2019 Nataliya became a member of International Academy of Ceramics in Geneva, Switzerland. She is currently studying her third year of an Interdisciplinary PhD at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland.

Ellis received her M.F.A. in Printmaking at Tyler School of Art in 2013. She was awarded a U.S. Fulbright student scholarship for Egypt, as well as an Arabic language grant for 2009-2010 and was based in Cairo, Egypt. She served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco, from 2006-2008, working for the Moroccan Ministry of Handicrafts. She is currently the Grants Manager and Development Coordinator at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA.

Jae Won Lee received an MFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She is currently Professor of Art at Michigan State University. She has participated in numerous artist-in-residence programs and exhibited her ceramic sculpture and works on paper/textile in numerous national and international exhibitions.

Simon Levin has been working in clay since 1990, when an elective ceramics course changed the arc of his life. Simon is a fulltime studio potter working exclusively with wood firing. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa. He exhibits, teaches, builds kilns, and is published internationally. Though a writer of many bios, Simon still dislikes writing about himself in the third person. In 2013 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar researching local materials in Taiwan. Between 2004 and 2020 his apprenticeship program has trained and influenced 22 potters. He hosts a video series on the Ceramics Arts Network, where he brings dialogue to process. Currently the Director at Large for NCECA, Simon seeks everyday to advance the frontiers of clay, and evangelize for this empowering material.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio. Lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Professor of Art at the University of Northern Iowa. Attended New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University (B.F.A. 1981) and Louisiana State University (M.F.A. 1986). Served as Vice President on the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts Board of Trustees.

Leslie M. Harris, Professor of History, Northwestern University, is the author or co-editor of five books on U.S. slavery, and has worked with a number of museums on public history projects to bring the history of slavery to the general public.

"A 2019 Smithsonian Artist Resident Fellow, Mark Shapiro’s pots are in many public collections. He edited ""A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes"" (UNCP 2010), founded the Apprenticelines project, and is a founding member of POW! (Pots on Wheels!) He launched the Make-In Studio at last year’s NCECA."

Adrienne Spinozzi is an Assistant Research Curator of American Decorative Arts at The Met where she specializes in ceramics and 19th and 20th-century decorative arts. She is currently organizing two exhibitions: one is of 20th and 21st century ceramics from pioneering collector, Robert A. Ellison Jr.; the other is of 19th-century stoneware from Old Edgefield District, South Carolina, the American Wing’s first exhibition to highlight the work of enslaved African American artisans.

Brenda is an independent scholar and a potter, using her studio, Liberty Stoneware, as an outlet for historic ceramics research. In 2012, she built a wood-firing, salt-glaze kiln. She is a graduate of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture and an alumna of Berea College Ceramics Apprenticeship Program.

"Earline Green is an educator and ceramic artist with work in public/private collections. She is published in ""500 Tiles, Image Transfer on Clay"" and ""Pottery Making Illustrated"". She is featured in Paragon Kilns Testimonial Advertisements, 2008-present; and as the ""Potter"" in the TD Jakes ""Potter’s Touch"" Television Ministry, 2007-08."

David F. Mack is a clay activist artist, educator, military veteran, and 2018 HOF Athletic Inductee-Baltimore City Community College. David is the author of “Enslaved and Freed African American Potters”, that appeared in the 2020 Sept. edition of Ceramic Monthly Magazine. David has received 3 NCECA program acceptance proposal letters.

Allison Moore is a scholar, curator and critic of contemporary art, contemporary African art and photography, and critical theory. She has published in Artforum, Afterimage, and ’Even as well as in scholarly journals and exhibition catalogs. Her

Sue Havens is an artist based in New York and Tampa, and is a Professor of Art at the University of South Florida. Her works recombine everyday vernacular through mixed media, and are featured in New American Paintings Magazine, the Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale in Korea, and Warhol’s Interview Magazine.

Fawn Krieger is a NY-based artist, whose multi-genre works examine touch, ownership, and exchange. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, and Texte zur Kunst. She serves as Grants Officer at The Keith Haring Foundation and Adjunct Faculty at Adelphi University.

Keiko Narahashi was born in Tokyo and and lives in NYC. She explores painting through clay, metal, paper, photography, and paint. She has recieved a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vogue, and The Brooklyn Rail.

Daniel Alejandro Trejo is a visual artist based out of Stockton, California working in ceramic sculpture. He received his BA in Art Studio and Art History from UC Davis. Currently, Trejo is a resident at Verge Center for the Arts in Sacramento, California where he maintains his studio practice.

Brad Bachmeier is a recipient of 45+ national/international grants and awards in ceramics and education. His work resides in all 50 states and many prestigious collections. One of 19 brick sculptors in the U.S. He lives with his family in Fargo, ND, and is a tenured professor at Minnesota State University, Moorhead.

David Smith is the Associate Professor of Ceramics at Salisbury University (Salisbury, MD). He has also taught Ceramics and 3D Design at the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, AR), Flathead Valley Community College (Kalispell, MT), and Southeastern Louisiana University (Hammond, LA). He also owns ‘Little Lane Pottery’ with his wife Paula.

Matt Kelleher is assistant professor of ceramics at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He joined the faculty in 2015 after a decade of working as a studio potter in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Matt has participated in residencies at Penland, Archie Bray, Shigaraki, and Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute.

John Neely is Professor of Ceramics at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, where he has taught since 1984. Since 1975, he has exhibited and lectured in the US, Europe and around the Pacific Rim. Most of his studio work is intended for the tabletop or kitchen.

Brad Evan Taylor is currently Associate Professor of Art at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu. He actively exhibits and participates in symposia and residencies worldwide. Recently Taylor received the Silver Prize in the Taiwan Ceramics Biennale. He is a member of the International academy of Ceramics.

Dr. William Carty retired from Alfred University after 27 years as a Ceramic Engineering professor. He taught engineering courses and still teaches “Ceramic Science for the Artist” and industrial short courses. He is a world-recognized expert and consultant to the ceramic industry and continues to conduct research at AU.

Judith S. Schwartz, PhD, NYU Professor Emeritus, Curator, Juror, Author, and Collector focused on ceramic arts. Trustee, Howard Kottler Testamentary trust, Vice President International Academy of Ceramics, honorary member of NCECA and teaching excellence awardee 2018, honored by J. D. Rockefeller III, Fulbright Association, NYCATA/UFT and Everson and Renwick Museums.

Margaret Carney is a ceramic historian who holds a Ph.D. in Asian art history. She is the founding director and curator of the International Museum of Dinnerware Design in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has spent her life curating exhibitions, lecturing, and writing about ceramics and the related arts.

Bethann Gerstein- is the Executive Director of the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, CA. Gerstein holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI and a BFA from Edinboro University, PA. She serves on the Board of Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, ME.

Mark Hewitt, Mark’s father and grandfather were Directors of Spode. He apprenticed with Michael Cardew and Todd Piker, and moved to North Carolina in 1983. He makes wood-fired functional pots, has written two books on Southern pottery, was President of the NC Pottery Center, and was awarded a United States Artist Fellowship.

Colby Parsons, MFA, is a Professor, and Interim Chair of Visual Arts at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, where he teaches Ceramics and Digital Craft. Parsons’ work applies aspects of traditional media approaches to digital-based processes, working in a range of media and formats.

Hanna Selman is an artist living in Denton, Texas, where she attends Texas Woman’s University and works as a Graduate Research Assistant for Professor Colby Parsons. She received her BFA from Fort Hays State University. Her current work is an exploration of intuitive thought and its ability to process emotions.

Ayumi Horie is a studio potter based in Maine, who co-founded The Democratic Cup, Pots In Action, Portland Brick, Obamaware and Handmade For Japan. She is a Distinguished Fellow in Craft at United States Artists and is a trustee at the American Craft Council and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

Stephanie Lanter has been exhibiting internationally, teaching, and writing since 2000. Currently an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at the Hartford Art School, her residencies include the Red Lodge Clay Center, Archie Bray, Arrowmont, LH Project, Anderson Ranch, Mendocino Arts Center, and Jentel. She received her MFA from Ohio University.

Joshua Paul Hebbert lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. After growing up in rural Western Nebraska, he studied ceramics at Creighton University in Omaha, NE and the University of Colorado--Boulder, earning his BFA and MFA, respectively. He teaches at MICA and recently completed a residency at The Clay Studio.

Dawn Holder is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of the Ozarks. She has received numerous accolades for her work, and has exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. She earned an MFA in Ceramics from RISD and a BFA in Ceramics from the University of Georgia.

Bobby Silverman is an artist and designer who lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in such collections as the Museum of Art and Design, New York City, and the Renwick Gallery /Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington ,DC.

Undine Brod grew up in a trifecta of cities: Los Angeles, Seattle, and NYC. She studied art at: The Ohio State University, the University of Washington, New York University and the NYS College of Ceramics. She believes art is crucial to life and living is crucial to art.

Malene Barnett is an artist and leading authority on the traditions of the African diaspora and the modern black experience.  Focused on ceramics and bespoke carpets, her work has been featured in many publications and commissioned globally.  A frequent keynote speaker, she was awarded 2019 designer of the year by interiors + sources and is based in New York.

April Felipe received her B.F.A from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and her M.F.A from Ohio University. April lives in Albany, Ohio working from home studio. She is an Organizer For The Color Network, and teaches outreach at the Dairy Barn Arts Center.

Salvador Jiménez-Flores is an interdisciplinary artist born in México. In his work he explores the themes of colonization, migration, “the other,” stereotypes, and futurism. Jiménez-Flores served as Artist-In-Residence for the city of Boston, Harvard Ceramics Program, Office of the Arts at Harvard University, and Kohler Arts Industry. Jiménez-Flores is a recipient of Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants and The New England Foundation for the Arts, and Threewalls’ RaD Lab+Outside the Walls Fellowship Grant. He is an Assistant Professor in ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Adam Chau is an artist in Cold Spring, NY. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his research blends digital manufacturing with traditional studio techniques. In 2018 he received the NCECA Emerging Artist Award and in 2019 he became a member of the International Academy of Ceramics.

Natalia Arbelaez is a Colombian American artist, born and raised in Miami, Florida, to immigrant parents. She received her BFA from FIU and her MFA from OSU. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in museums, galleries, and included in various collections, such as the Everson Museum and MAD Museum.

Audrey is currently an MFA candidate at Penn State University. She received her BFA from Alfred University and studied at Colorado State University as a post-baccalaureate student. Her studio practices question - how to hybridize digital technologies to ceramic creativity from the perspective of ‘convergence’, which could be cultural, technological, dimensional, or interdisciplinary.

Austin Bradshaw is a conservationist, and artist who uses experiences in the outdoors as a material. He incorporates analog and digital processes in producing his work. He graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2017 with a BFA and attends Pennsylvania State University as a graduate student.

"Anne Beyer is a wood fire specialist who is currently setting up a studio and building a wood kiln in the countryside of Paducah Kentucky. She recently completed an MFA from Indiana University and works part-time as an Adjunct Instructor at the Paducah School of Art and Design."

Abigale Brading completed her MFA in Ceramics at Indiana University - Bloomington in 2017. She built a home ceramics studio in Central Indiana and works full-time as a federal employee for the USPS. She decided sleep was overrated and simultaneously teaches as an adjunct professor from time-to-time.

Brett Beasley is a ceramic artist and the Studio Manager at Clayworks, a nonprofit community studio located in Charlotte, NC. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Florida and his master’s degree from East Carolina University. Beasley exhibits his artwork at both the national and regional levels.

Ben Owen III is an American potter born and raised in Seagrove, NC who uses wood firing techniques for making functional and decorative pottery.  A sixth-generation potter learning from his family, BFA in Ceramics at East Carolina University, Fellowship in Japan, visiting artist in Jingdezhen, China.  He continues to work in the family business, Ben Owen Pottery, established by his grandfather, Ben Owen Sr.

Fred began making pots by working as a production potter for many of the old Seagrove family potteries. He earned a BFA at Alfred University and a MFA at Penn State University. In 1996 he & his wife, Carol Gentithes established Johnson & Gentithes Studio in Seagrove, NC.

David has worked and exhibited across US, Europe and Asia.  He has been a US/Japan Creative Artists Fellowship recipient, and an NEA/Central and Eastern Europe Visual Arts Fellowship recipient. He has taught at Penland School of Crafts, the Bascom Center for Visual Arts and numerous universities and colleges. His work is included in the collections of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park Museum (Japan), the NC Museum of History, the Asheville Museum of Art, and the Museum of International Folk Art, among others.

Japanese native ceramic artist in Seagrove, NC. Graduated from Okayama University with ceramic art degrees. Received Rotary International scholarship and studied at UMass-Dartmouth. Moved to Seagrove and set up a permanent pottery studio. Focus on woodfired ceramics. Became a member of IAC. Has many exhibitions in Japan, USA and Internationally.

Trinbagonian Artist, Proud Caribbean Queer, I use these words to describe some measure of the intersectionality from which my work erupts. By utilizing Folklore and Carnival characters from my heritage I seek to navigate tensions of power, sexuality, race, and the diversity of complexities within the Caribbean.

Jason received his ceramic education through working under other potters as an assistant or apprentice in Japan, England and in the US. He is currently a resident artist at Penland School of Craft.

Jinsik Yoo aims to disrupt binary classifications of people through figurative sculpture and installation. Born in Daejon, South Korea he studied graphic for nine years in Seoul before moving to the US at the age of 32. Yoo studied ceramics at Konkuk University and Alfred University (MFA ’19).

Shiyuan Xu is originally from Hangzhou, China. Shiyuan received a BA (2012) from China Academy of Art and an MFA (2016) from Arizona State University. Shiyuan is a 2017 Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist and currently she is the resident artist at Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL.

Dom is an biracial potter born in rural Wisconsin and raised in the Twin Cities. Dom earned an M.F.A. in ceramic sculpture from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2010. He wood fires with Glencoe Ceramics and currently serves as instructor of Fine Arts at Riverland Community College in Austin, MN.

Grace Han is a ceramic artist originally trained in South Korea. She received her BFA from Dankook University where she specialized in traditional Korean ceramic techniques and skills. She received her MFA from University of Manitoba in 2016 and has been pursuing her career as a ceramic artist in Canada.