Lucas J. Knowles is an emerging ceramic and intermedia artist based in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2021, Knowles earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Arizona State University’s School of art while being recognized for receiving the Outstanding Research & Scholarship in Design and the Arts Award. Lucas J Knowles has exhibited nationally and abroad, including two features at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts in both 2018 and 2019 respectively. In 2019, Lucas J Knowles was selected to participate in the NCECA National Juried Student Exhibition. In 2020, Knowles received the International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award – which included a feature in the January/February 2021 issue of the International Sculpture Center's award-winning publication, Sculpture magazine.