____Selected exhibitions

• The 6th International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan, 2002
• 2nd Premio Internacional de Ceramica Contemporáneo, Zaragoza, Spain, 2002
• XVIIIème Biennale Internationale de Céramique d’Art, Vallauris, France, 2002
• St. Ives International, CERAMICA, Falmouth Arts Centre, England, 2002
• Le Chandelier Céramique, Musée de Carouge, Switzerland, 2001
• The 2nd Cheongju International Craft Competition Biennale, Gold Prize Award, Cheongju, Korea, 2001
• Bienal Internacional de Ceramica, President de la Generalitat Valenciana Award, Museo de la Ceramica de Manises, Valencia, Spain, 2001
• Ceramics 2001 Third Biennial North American Clay Exhibit, First Place Award, Guilford Handcraft Center, Guilford, Connecticut

Born in Michigan in 1974, Todd Shanafelt holds a MFA from Kansas State University, Manhattan, 2002, and a BA from the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, 1997. He is an assistant professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Clay allows me to wander through ideas stemming
from childhood memories of my master-mechanic
father’s garage and other experiences I have had
in our mass production, mass convenience, mass
consumption society.