/ Artist Bio

Currently Shawn is the Sr. Kiln Specialist and Adjunct Faculty for the Ceramic Art Department at Alfred University. He has earned both his MFA (2008) and BFA (2004) from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Shawn has since exhibited his artwork nationally and internationally, most recently at the Burchfield Penny Art Museum in Buffalo, New York and The Historic Scarab Club Gallery in Detroit, Michigan.  When not in the studio, Shawn is teaching, developing gas and electric kilns, riding his dirt bike and finishing the construction on his home with his wife and kids.