Karin Kraemer grew up in Minneapolis. She holds a BFA in hot glass from St. Cloud State University and an MFA in ceramics from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. “I moved to Duluth, Minnesota, several years ago. I love to camp, be in the woods, work in the garden, and cook. These things all come together in my work: it celebrates everything from individual flowers in my garden to landscape, good friends, and making food.” Kraemer owns the Duluth Pottery Studio and Gallery in the Lincoln Park Crafts District. 

Andy Shaw is an assistant professor at East Carolina University (Greenville, NC) and former associate professor at Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge), studio potter, co-coordinator of the Mid-Atlantic Keramik Exchange (Reykjavik, Iceland), former director of the LSU Ceramics Factory, and co-director of the first Queeramics Symposium. His curatorial practice includes the award-winning exhibition,The Boneyard: The Ceramics Teaching CollectionandThe Shaping of Us: Queerness in Ceramics, both exhibited at the LSU Museum of Art.