Allan Rosenbaum is a studio artist and former Professor of Ceramics in the Department of Craft and Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has received Individual Artist Fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts in both Craft and Sculpture and is a Fellow of the Virginia Center for Creative Art. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in public collections including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, the City Museum of Varazdan, Croatia, Arkansas Art Center Decorative Arts Museum; Madison Art Center in Wisconsin, the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, GA, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art and the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama, the City of Richmond Public Art Commission, and the Kamm Teapot Foundation.