Shane Christensen has been a practicing potter since 1993. He attended Dixie State College and Southern Utah University graduating with a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Ceramics and Sculpture. In 1999, he earned his Masters of Fine Arts from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in Ceramics. After graduation, Christensen worked full-time as an Assistant Professor of Art at Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas from 1999-2004. Later, he taught in St. George, Utah at Snow Canyon High School from 2004-2012. From that time until now Christensen has been a Professor of Art/Ceramics at Utah Tech University. His work is primarily folk based utilitarian pottery. Even though this work is based in the American folk tradition, many of the pieces have a Korean Buncheong ware influence appearing in his work as well. His pots consist of simple functional objects to large scale vases and platters with the use of slips, basic glazes and other traditional techniques for surfaces. Christensen’s pottery has been exhibited locally and nationally, as well as internationally.