Michael Connelly is a potter in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, as well as Associate Professor/ Ceramics Coordinator at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. He received his MFA and BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Connelly has taught and presented lectures and workshops at various venues both nationally and internationally, including classes at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Archie Bray Foundation, Penland School of Crafts, Alfred University, Alberta College of Art and Design, Sheridan College and the Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia, where he was honored with the Walter Gropius Master Award. He is the owner/founder of Bailey Street Arts Corridor in the Brewerytown neighborhood in Philadelphia. His utilitarian pottery is in the permanent collections of the China Yaoware Museum, the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Asheville Art Museum, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Huntington Museum or Ceramic Art and Long Beach Museum of Art.