Richard Rogers holds an MBA from Ohio State University (1979) and a BA in Biology and Chemistry from Hiram College (1977). Rick began his career in 1980 as founder and president of Tribute, a software company based in Akron, Ohio. He assumed leadership of B. W. Rogers Company, a manufacturing and distribution company in 1994. Rick’s philanthropy includes supporting the Akron Children’s Hospital; the Akron Art Museum; the Intermuseum Conservancy Association; and the Boys and Girls Club of the Western Reserve. In 2017, Rick created the art nonprofit Curated Storefront which has secured and managed funds to launch installations in downtown Akron. Rick is deeply engaged in the arts and is a leading collector of contemporary ceramics from Asia and the US and twentieth-century American and European design.

Jeffrey Spahn is a private art dealer specializing in 20th century masters of studio pottery and ceramic sculpture. He has contributed to Studio Potter, Ceramics Monthly, Yunomi: A studio pottery collector’s guide, and recently, The Art of Toshiko Takaezu and Chris Gustin Wood fired Ceramics, and Martha Russo’s Mid-career review at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.. He owns and operates Jeffrey Spahn Gallery, an on-line re-sale gallery for collectors and sellers at www.jeffreyspahn.com.

Sin-Ying Ho, born in Hong Kong and based in New York City, is an associate professor of ceramics at Queens College, CUNY. She holds an MFA from Louisiana State University, a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and a High Diploma from Sheridan College. Ho was the first off-campus student from NSCAD to study at Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute, China, in 1996.

An influential educator, she has taught and led workshops globally, including at Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and numerous institutions across North America and Asia. Ho’s honors include a Merit Award from the San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, multiple Canada Council Grants, and a PSC-CUNY Grant. Her works reside in permanent collections worldwide, such as the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Hood Museum, Gardiner Museum, and Yingge Ceramics Museum.

Exhibited internationally, her series Eden was showcased at the Giovanni Nicelli private airport on Venice’s Lido Island during the 2022 Venice Biennale, and her piece Afterglow is currently on display at the Office Kiln Museum in Jingdezhen. Her work Music served as the cover of Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice, and Beyond Borders – Passage of Time is the cover image of New Export China (2023). Ho is a senior advisor at Taoxichuan Art Centre, China, and a trustee at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts.

Carol Green is a textile designer who operated a manufacturing business that designed and produced placemats, canvas bags, and accessories. She has also worked in fashion and interior design and served on the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts board. Green is an avid collector and appreciator of all art mediums, traveling and collecting with the Art Jewelry Forum, James Renwick Alliance for Craft, Corning Museum Of Glass, Glass Art Society, MFA Boston Fashion and Textile Arts Council, and NCECA.

Paul Greenhalgh is a British historian, writer, museologist, and curator of art and design and lives in Britian.
Training initially as a painter, Greenhalgh entered academia through the Courtauld Institute of Art, later teaching at the Royal College of Art, and holding the post of deputy keeper of ceramics and glass at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Greenhalgh was appointed director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, the public gallery of the University of East Anglia, where he held the position of professor of art history and museum strategy and is now Professor Emeritus. In 2022, Greenhalgh became the inaugural director of the Zaha Hadid Foundation and stepped down in 2024. Greenhalgh is a specialist in the decorative arts and artistic movements from 1850 to 1940 and his most notable books include Ceramic Art and Civilization, Modernism and Design and Essential Art Nouveau among many others.

Wendy has been a professional curator for over 35 years, and has presented 30+ exhibitions. One of the highlights was a major exhibition of contemporary Danish ceramics, which was featured at the Museum of Arts and Design. This exhibition was also presented internationally.

After that, Wendy curated another international group exhibition of contemporary ceramists, also at MAD.

Wendy is a writer for Art New England, and has contributed to the Encyclopedia of New England published by Yale University Press. She has also served as a juror for many art exhibitions.

Wendy has a B.A. from Smith College, an M.F.A. from Boston University, and has taken courses at Radcliffe Seminars.

Bruce M. Sherman has a studio practice in New York City and Sagaponock Long Island. He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions worldwide and is represented by the Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in Tribeca NYC. He is an avid art collector with an array of works encompassing many disciplines. In addition to his ceramic practice, Bruce has retired from his dental practice and from teaching at NYU College of Dentistry, however, he’s still active as the CEO of the Dental Insurance Corporation. Bruce’s interest in art is based on his personal quest to explore clay’s endless possibilities for expressing ideas in sculptural forms. He has been a board member since MoCA/NY’s founding.

Hailing from Austin, Texas and a graduate of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Will Resen-Davidson is responsible for the deployment and development of MOCA-NY and the Ceramic World Destinations web application. He currently works full-time as a Senior Lead Engineer at Majesco and as a volunteer at the Museum of Ceramic Art - New York.

Abby Digital has been involved with computers since they were programmed with punch cards and paper tape. He learned Computer Science at Yale University under the tutelage of several graduate students, while he was still in high school. Over the years, he has been a pioneer in HVAC, Desktop Publishing, Video Special Effects, and Television Post-production Scheduling systems. A long time consultant for Judy Schwartz, Abby was involved with the realization of the concept of the Ceramic World Destinations map, and the architecture of its application.

Ilsy Jeon is a multidisciplinary artist and writer born and based in New York. She studied drawing and painting at Pratt Institute for two years and received her B.F.A Hons in Sculpture and Environmental Art from Glasgow School of Art where she completed a dissertation about the epistemology of museums through a postcolonial lens. She has participated in residencies in Iceland, Hungary, and the United States and has exhibited in New York, Glasgow, Seydisfjordur, and Budapest.