Eric Kao was the Director at The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, located in Jiangxi Province, China. After receiving his M.F.A. in Ceramics from University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth in 2009, he was granted an opportunity to work in the world famous porcelain producing city of Jingdezhen. Eric returned to United States in 2016 searching for an opportunity to foster creativity in the United States and ended up in Baltimore, Maryland as the Studio and Artist Programs Director until May 2017.