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• Andy Shaw is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Ceramics at East Carolina University. Previously he taught for 16 years at Louisiana State University, where he was head of Ceramics. He completed his time at LSU at the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. His creative projects include the conceptual development and coordination of the Mid-Atlantic Keramik Exchange (MAKE) in Reykjavik Iceland, the LSU Ceramics Factory team-production studio, the first Queeramics Symposium held at LSU, and The Boneyard exhibition at LSUMoA. Andy has completed nationally and internationally based artist residencies including the Royal Danish Academy, SÍM Residency in Reykjavik, Íshús Hafnarfjarðar in Hafnarfjörður (2016), MAKE 2019, and MAKE 2022 all in Iceland, AIA with the Red Lodge Clay Center, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada, the Northern Clay Center of Minneapolis as a funded McKnight Artist, The Clay Studio of Philadelphia as the 2007 Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Fellow, the Archie Bray Foundation, and at the Arrowmont School of Crafts. In 2000 he earned his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and in 1992 a BA in History from Kenyon College. He also studied at Penn State University, the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and apprenticed at Basin Creek Pottery, Montana.
  Among the distinguished permanent holdings of his work are the Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Swidler Collection at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Everson Museum of Art, and the E. John Bullard Collection at the LSU Museum of Art. Louisiana State University recognized him twice with Outstanding Teaching Awards.