Walter McConnell

​www.waltermcconnell.com/

mcconnw@alfred.edu

Walter McConnell is a professor of Ceramic Art at Alfred University’s School of Art and Design. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1956, McConnell studied at the University of Connecticut, Storrs (BFA Sculpture, 1979) and Alfred University (MFA, Ceramic Art, 1986).  He is the recipient of numerous grants including those from the Bemis Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Tiffany Foundation, The Joan Mitchell Foundation and The European Ceramic Work Center. Additionally, McConnell’s sculpture has been featured in many prominent exhibitions over the past ten years: Top Forty, Harvard Center for the Arts, Boston, 2014; Overthrown: Clay Without Limits, Denver Art Museum, 2011; Interactions, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2010; Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China, Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA, 2008; Strata, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005. McConnell is represented by Cross Mackenzie Gallery in Washington DC.