Melanie Shaw received her BA from Hunter College, New York, with a double major in Digital Media and Film and Studio Arts (ceramics concentration) and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors. Her artist residencies have included Guaitil Pottery, Tamarindo, Costa Rica, Brickhouse Ceramic Art Center, New York, Hunter College, New York, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Maine, and Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina.
Tina Lewis has been making pottery since high school in the 1970s and studied ceramics while completing her undergraduate degree at Stephen F. Austin State University. She has had the benefit of many great teachers and clay workshops over the years. Tina went on to law school at the University of Texas and after a long break, began making pottery again in 2005.