Evan Blackwell was born in New Rochelle, New York. He completed his Bachelors of Fine Arts with a focus in ceramics from Alfred University in 1999 and moved to Seattle, WA. Since then he has been prolifically creating and showing his art work in Seattle and the local area. He worked as a potter for Orcas Island pottery and taught ceramics for adults and children at Pottery Northwest in Seattle, WA for six years. He worked as a teaching assistant and studio manger at The Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Deer Isle, ME for a number of ceramics workshops including Chris Staley’s and Julia Galloway’s. Evan has been a teaching assistant and a graduate teacher at the University of Washington. He also assisted with a number of public art project for Norie Sato since 2005. Evan was an Emerging Artist in Residence at the Pilchuck School of Glass in Stanwood, WA in 2003. In 2005, he was a finalist for the Seattle Art Museum’s Betty Bowen award and a recipient of a PONCHO Special Recognition Award. In 2006 he received an Art Patch grant and in 2007 was awarded a residency at the Takt Kunstprojecttraum Residency in Berlin, Germany. In 2008 he will receive his Masters of Fine Art from the University of Washington in Seattle.