Craig Clifford received his BFA from California State University Long Beach in 2000 and his MFA from Louisiana State University in 2003.  He exhibits his work nationally and internationally and has been included in the 2007 and 2009 World Ceramic Biennial in South Korea as well as exhibitions at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA and the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California. He is currently an artist in residence at The Archie Bray Foundation in Helena Montana working for a solo exhibition at the gallery at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit Michigan. He has taught ceramics and art at California State University Long Beach, USC, Mississippi Valley State University and is currently the head of the ceramics program as a Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.