John Shea (b. 1989) works with clay to examine the way objects form relationships and exist in the world. Incorporating geometric and organic forms, his work highlights the constructed boundaries between individual objects and the ways we differentiate between objects and ourselves, seeking to reveal the hidden structures of our world.

Shea holds a Master of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally through prominent galleries, including HostlerBurrows and HB381 in New York and Los Angeles, Officine Saffi in Milan, and Carwan Gallery in Athens. Additionally, his work has been featured in art fairs such as Design Miami, TEFAF, Collect, and Frieze New York. His most recent solo exhibition, full volume, opened in January 2025 at the Walton Art Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Shea currently serves as Assistant Professor of Ceramics at the University of Arkansas – Little Rock, where he has taught since 2021.

Amy Sanders was born in Yueyang, Hunan, China, and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. She holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts with a concentration in Ceramics from West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. In 2022, she completed a year as a post-baccalaureate student at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. From 2022-2024, she served as a long-term Artist in Residence at the Morean Center for Clay in St. Petersburg, FL. She served as an invited artist at the 2025 winter Pentaculum short-term residency at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg. Recently, Amy attended a Resident Artist program at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Shiga, Japan. Amy has appeared in exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her article “Harmonious Pouring Vessels” was included in the September 2025 issue of Ceramics Monthly. Currently, she is attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a Master’s of Fine Arts candidate.

Abbey Peters is currently based in Denver, CO, and serves as the Phipps Visiting Professor of Ceramics at the University of Denver. She holds an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Iowa and a BFA from the University of Arkansas. Her work has been exhibited in over forty group exhibitions across the US and Canada, in addition to recent solo shows at Berea College and UIHC Project Art. Peters has received international research grants supporting projects on reproductive care, seed preservation, and beekeeping in London, UK. She has held technician and teaching roles at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village, CO), Lillstreet Art Center (Chicago, IL), and Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA). Peters has been awarded residencies at IaRex l’Atelier (St. Raphael, France), the inaugural CIRCA Exchange (Boulder, CO), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and the Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, MT).

Chelsea McMaster is a ceramic artist who primarily works with coil-building, sculptural techniques, and traditional finishes. Her work transcribes unwritten and forgotten narratives that bridge history, craft, and storytelling through the ceramic medium. She completed her BA in Art at Millersville University (PA) and an MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University (NY). In 2023, she was awarded the NCECA Graduate Student Fellowship and the American Ceramic Circle Research grant. She is a Fulbright Scholar and a National Geographic Explorer whose focus is on the preservation, education, and expansion of Afro-Caribbean pottery practices. Her research-based practice centers on matriarchal craft legacies and preserving oral culture and traditions through object-making.

Corwyn Lund is a Toronto-based visual artist. He received his MFA in Ceramic Art from Alfred University in 2022, after studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RSID) with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship. Lund has participated in ceramic residencies around the world, including in Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, and China. In April of 2024, his ceramic work was featured on the cover of Ceramics Monthly magazine, which contained an article on his practice. In 2025, he received the runner-up prize for the Winifred Shantz Award for Canadian ceramics. Corwyn’s ceramic work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary, Headstone Gallery in New York state, and Zalucky Contemporary in Toronto, and is held in the permanent collections of the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, and Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. Works in other media are held in several prominent Canadian corporate and private collections.

Nanxi Jin (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist working with clay as a site of fragmentation and reconstruction. Born in Jingdezhen, China, the historical center of porcelain production, and now based in Chicago, her practice examines how ceramic materials carry cultural memory across geographies.

Her work begins with broken forms: shards, discarded vessels, and glaze residues. Rather than restoring these elements, she reassembles them into structures that hover between function and collapse. Through processes such as slip casting, hand-building, and modular construction, she destabilizes traditional ceramic hierarchies of refinement and perfection, foregrounding the overlooked waste, excess, and residue.

Nanxi received her BFA from Alfred University and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including NYCxDesign (New York), Woman Made Gallery (Chicago), SOIL (Seattle), Ceramic Art Avenue Gallery (Jingdezhen), and Paris Design Week (Paris). She has been awarded residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation, Ox-Bow School of Art, Vermont Studio Center, and Anderson Ranch. Her work is included in the Guangdong Shiwan Ceramic Museum’s collection in China.