Jay Lacouture is a potter at Carolina Pottery in Carolina, Rhode Island, where he fires his work in a two-chamber wood-soda kiln. He is a retired Professor of Art at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, a Fellow and former President of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), and served on the board Studio Potter. He is a graduate of West Virginia University (MFA) and Rhode Island College (BA), and exhibits his work internationally.