Ray Brown

Ray Brown was born in Houston, Texas, and earned a BFA with Honors from the
Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College at the University of Mississippi under Matt Long. During summers, he assisted ceramic artists Chris Gustin in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and Christopher Spitzmiller in New York City. He then earned a MFA instudio art with emphasis in ceramics at West Virginia University (WVU), learning underShoji Satake, Robert “Boomer” Moore, Jen Allen and Shalya Marsh. He assisted JuliaGalloway in Missoula, Montana, as well as help build a large tube wood kiln on the WVU campus. His work has been displayed nationally and internationally in numerous juried shows, with work displayed in Jingdezhen, China and Tokyo, Japan. In 2019, he received the Studio Potter Merit Award at NCECA’s National Juried Student Exhibition in Minneapolis, MN. The same year, his work was featured in Studio Potter as part of the award. In 2024, he was selected as one of Ceramics Monthly’s Emerging Artists. Currently, he is an instructor and ceramic studio technician for the University of Mississippi.