Matt Burton is an artist, art director, pottery instructor, writer for Bay magazine and owner of the m.t.burton gallery & 19th Street Clay Studio for over 20 years.

Burton earned his BA from Roanoke College and MA and MFA from Stephen F. Austin State University.  

Some of Burton’s additional curatorial credits associated with NCECA include: “Mish-Mash”, (Charlotte) “Emergence Theory”, (Charlotte) “Another Mish-Mash”, (Kansas City) “Continuance” (San Diego) “Play Outside: Clay Beyond Interior Space” (Indianapolis), Mish-Mash Redux” (Indianapolis), “The Big Show” (Indianapolis) “Mish-Mash Again” (Baltimore), “Potters of the Mid-Atlantic” (Baltimore) “Veneration” (Phoenix) “Mish-Mash Strikes Back”, (Philadelphia), “Pictures On Pots”, (Philadelphia) “Organitect” (Philadelphia)