Christopher Staley is an artist and educator who works out of Pennsylvania where at Penn State he is a distinguished Professor of Art in ceramics in the School of Visual Arts. He received his BFA from Wittenberg University, studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and received his MFA from Alfred University.

He served as the president of NCECA (the National Council of Education of the Ceramic Arts), he was the Chair at the Haystack Mountain School in Maine, he’s a member of the International Academy of Ceramics based in Geneva, he was an artist in residence at the Ceramic Art Museum in Fuping, China, he’s been an artist in residence at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana and has received an NEA grant twice.

His work is included in collections such as the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, The Palmer Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii and the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art to name just a handful. There’s many more.

He’s had over twenty five solo shows and has been in countless group exhibitions. He currently has a solo show at the Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery at 16 Jones Street in New York City entitled “Touching Time” up until September 27th.

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