Keaton Wynn is a Professor of Art teaching both Art History and Ceramics at Georgia Southwestern State University. He earned his BFA in Ceramics at Missouri State University, his MFA in Ceramics from Kent State University, and an MA in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University. Wynn works as a practicing artist exhibiting widely in regional, national, and international exhibitions. While teaching at GSW he has received the President's award for Excellence in Service in 2010 and the Faculty Excellence in Scholarship award in 2016. In recent years he has directed and co-directed study abroad programs to China, Africa, and Nepal. Wynn has given workshops and presentations nationally and internationally and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Xian Academy of Fine Art in Xian China, The Dunhuang School of Art, Northwest Normal University and Shanghai Normal University. Since the fall of 2012 Wynn has been the Director of the Dunhuang Creative Center (now called the Lanzhou Ceramic Residency) which he helped establish at Lanzhou City University. Under his direction LZCU has developed the only academic ceramics program in Gansu province which is now the largest program of its kind in western China. Recently, Wynn has completed a multi-year research project in Gansu into the use of indigenous materials for ceramic production. The residency program encourages Western artist's responses to Yellow River culture, the Silk Road, and the Dunhuang Buddhist Grottoes. In 2017, he established the Center for Chinese Bie modern Studies at GSW in collaboration with the Institute of Aesthetics and Aesthetic Education at Shanghai Normal University, which encourages critical engagement of contemporary Chinese culture. In 2019, a sister center was established at the University of Primorska in Koper Slovenia. Wynn currently lives in Plains, Georgia with his wife Stephanie who works as a medical social worker. Together they have two children Ian and Maya, a Lab Pit Bull mix named Zoe, a yellow cat named Soren Kierkegaard and his own personal cat Hildegard who secretly controls everyone.