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Mary Johnson is a Minnesota-based artist living north of St Paul, with a studio in Minneapolis in the Casket Arts-Factory building. Her work is informed by sculptural and traditional craft processes, and the repurposing and recontextualizing of everyday materials. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and her BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She currently teaches sculpture at the College of Saint Benedict & Saint John’s University.

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Todd Shanafelt (b.1974 in Three Rivers, MI, USA) has been professor of art (ceramics) at Minnesota State University, Mankato since 2002.  He received his MFA from Kansas State University in 2001 and BA degrees in French and Visual Arts at the University of Northern Colorado in 1996.  He has had extended studies abroad at the Lycée Jean-Puy in Roanne, France in 1992-93 and again in Tours, France in 1996. Since 2000, his work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions throughout the USA and abroad.  His work is found in collections at the Musée de la Céramique d’Andenne, Belgium, Kapfenburg Cultural Center, Austria, Centro de Artesania De Aragon, Spain, Museu de la Ceramica de Manises, Spain, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Arizona, USA, Yingge Internatioinal Ceramics Museum, Taiwan and others.   

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