Qwist Joseph is assistant professor in ceramics/sculpture in the School of Art, Art History & Design. He is from Fort Collins, Colorado, where he spent his formative years working with his dad at the family’s bronze foundry.

He went on to earn a B.F.A. in pottery from Colorado State University and an M.F.A. in ceramics from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Informed by his experience as a hairless individual, Joseph’s sculpture interrogates conventional definitions of masculinity, complicating narrow ideas of manhood for himself and others.

He has completed residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation, the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, the University of Denver and Scripps College. In 2019, Joseph received an Emerging Artist Award from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at Peters Projects in Santa Fe, the Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale in South Korea, and the Officine Saffi exhibition in Milan, Italy. He has also held teaching positions at the University of Arkansas, Chaffey College, the University of Redlands, the University of Denver, and Pitzer College.