Alfred University faculty

Joe Lewis (Joseph S. Lewis III; born 1953 in New York City) is a post-conceptual non-media specific American artist, musician, writer and art educator. Lewis was co-founding director of Fashion Moda in New York, where he curated and mounted numerous exhibitions and performance events. He also early on has been associated with Colab and ABC No Rio and appeared in the 1983 seminal American hip hop film Wild Style.

Andrew Deutsch (born 1968) is a sound artist who also teaches at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.

Ben W. Howard (born 1944 in Iowa), Emeritus Professor of English at Alfred University, is an American poet, essayist, scholar, and critic. He is the author of eleven books, including three collections of essays on Zen practice, six collections of poems, a verse novella, and a critical study of modern Irish writing. From 1973-2000, he served as a regular reviewer for Poetry. Over the past four decades, he has contributed more than 250 poems, essays, and reviews to leading journals in North America and abroad, including Poetry, Shenandoah, Poetry Ireland Review, Agenda, and the Sewanee Review. Until his retirement in 2006, he taught courses in literature and writing and an Honors course in Buddhist meditation at Alfred University. He also taught classical guitar and often performed in faculty recitals. Since 1998 he has led the Falling Leaf Sangha, a Rinzai Zen practice group in Alfred, New York. He has also offered guest lectures and conducted annual meditative retreats at the Olean Meditation Center in Olean, New York. "One Time, One Meeting," his monthly column, explores aspects of Zen practice.

Daniel Rhodes (May 8, 1911 – July 23, 1989) was an American ceramic artist, sculptor, author and educator. During his 25 years (1947–1973) on the faculty at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, in Alfred, New York (a division of the State University of New York), he built an international reputation as a potter, sculptor and authority on studio pottery.

Joe Gow (born 1960) is an American academic, musician, and pornographic actor. He was the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse from 2007 until his termination from the position in December 2023, when it was discovered that he and his wife had publicly produced pornographic films.

Linda Ellen Jones is an academic in the field of chemical engineering, and known for her work in high temperature chemistry. She is a professor at Western New England University and an elected fellow of the American Ceramic Society.

Hongwei Li is a Chinese sculptor. He currently works and lives in Beijing and New York.

Adele Hagner Stamp (1893–1974) was the first dean of women at the University of Maryland, College Park and later named dean of women emeritus from the University Board of Regents. In 1990 she was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. In 1983, the University of Maryland named the student union building in her honor.

Walter McConnell is an American ceramic artist living and working in Belmont, New York. He is most recognized for his unfired ceramic installations addressing the relationship between nature and culture – more specifically, the means through which contemporary culture constructs an understanding of nature. McConnell currently serves as an Associate Professor of Ceramic Art at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, in Alfred, New York.

D. Wayne Higby (born 12 May 1943, Colorado, USA) is an American artist working in ceramics.