Janathel Shaw is a ceramic sculptor, a pencil portrait artist and educator.  She was born in Fort Pierce, Florida and moved to Washington DC as a child.  She attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts High School. Later she earned an Associates of Arts degree from Prince Georges Community College, a Bachelors of Fine Arts and a Masters of Fine Art from George Washington University. Janathel Shaw is a member of Touchstone Gallery in DC; a member of the Black Artists of DC, and NCECA (National Council
on the Education of Ceramic Arts).  She has exhibited at Northern Clay Center in MN, Crawford Museum in Sacramento CA, the D’Amour Museum in Springfield, MA, the McLean Project for the Arts, VA;  Washington
Sculptor’s Group, Joan Hisaoka Gallery, WDC; the Cosmos Club, WDC, The Society for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, the Manchester Craftsman Guild, Pittsburgh, Pepco Edison Gallery, WDC, Artist and Makers Galleries, Rockville, MD, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore MD , the Jazz Museum, Kansas City MO, and Montpelier Arts Gallery to name a few. Ms. Shaw has also been cited or published in the following: Black American Ceramic Artists, donald clark and Chotsani Dean, Contemporary Confrontational Ceramics, Judith Schwartz; East City Arts, the Washington Post, Ceramic Review, Ceramic Monthly.