Jon McMillan is an artist and educator from Virginia, where he is an Assistant professor of Ceramics at James Madison University. Jon spent the past 13 years at the University of Mary Washington, where he served for seven years as Chair of the Department of Art and Art History and four years as Gallery Director. He holds an MFA in ceramics from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and a BFA from James Madison University, where he also earned a minor in Art History.

After undergraduate school, Jon worked for seven years as a full-time studio potter before pursuing his master’s degree. Currently, he makes sculptural and functional ceramic artwork, designs and builds kilns, and curates ceramics exhibitions. Highlights include recent solo exhibitions at The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Tennessee Tech University, Hunter College, and Luniverre Gallery in Cordes Sur Ciel, France. In 2017, McMillan was awarded UMW’s prestigious Grellet Simpson Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. In 2019, he was awarded a Professional Artist Fellowship with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. In addition to teaching at the university level, Jon has taught ceramics workshops at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Clay Art Center, The Glassell School of Fine Art, and The Vallauris Institute for the Arts, among others.