Tracy Shell

Tracy Shell is a ceramicist who makes utilitarian pottery and is currently a studio potter at Shockoe Bottom Clay in Richmond, Virginia. She previously taught as a professor of art and department chair at Midland University in Omaha, Nebraska, from 2007 to 2018. Shell trained with an MFA from RIT's School for American Crafts and a BFA from the University of Montevallo, and spent three years apprenticing with Japanese potter Juroemon Fujita. She has been connected to LUX Center for the Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska, as a former artist in residence and a residency contact.