Andy Shaw is Associate Professor of Ceramics at Louisiana State University. His creative projects include coordinating the Mid-Atlantic Keramik Exchange in Reykjavik Iceland, the LSU Ceramics Factory production studio, co-directing the first Queeramics Symposium held at LSU, and co-curating The Boneyard exhibition at LSUMoA. Andy has completed artist residencies at the SÍM Residency in Reykjavik, Íshús Hafnarfjarðar in Iceland, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 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, and the E. John Bullard Collection at the LSU Museum of Art. Louisiana State University has recognized him twice with the Outstanding Teaching Awards.

Currently associate professor of ceramics at Louisiana State University, Andy Shaw has also taught at Alfred University, Gettysburg College, Arcadia University, and Andrews University. Shaw’s tableware has received multiple awards, is shown widely across the U.S., was recently featured in exhibitions in Australia and Korea, and has been published in Studio Potter, Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Garth Clark’s Shards, and in Elevations, the magazine for Club Members of the Ritz Carlton. Several museums hold his work within their collections: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Swidler Collection at the Crocker Art Museum, AMOCA (American Museum of Ceramic Art), the Schein-Joseph Museum, and the Sanbao Institute of Ceramic Art in Jingdezhen, China. In 2014, Shaw travelled to Reykjavik, Iceland, as a visiting artist and to establish new collaborative projects with artists and educational institutions.