藝術(shù)家，藝術(shù)學教授，擔任美國紐約阿爾弗雷德大學紐約州立陶瓷學院院長和總策展人，其作品被世界各地眾多藝術(shù)博物館，如紐約大都會藝術(shù)博物館、俄羅斯圣彼得堡艾爾米塔什博物館、中國美術(shù)館以及東京國立近代美術(shù)館等，永久收藏。
2004年，成為首位獲得中國景德鎮(zhèn)市榮譽市民的外籍人士，現(xiàn)為國際陶藝學會榮休副主席。
Wayne Higby is an artist, a professor of art and the Wayne Higby Director and Chief Curator of the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum at Alfred University. His work is held in the permanent collections of numerous art museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Hermitage Art Museum, St Petersburg, Russia, the National Art Museum of China, Beijing and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. In 2004 Higby became the first foreign national to be acclaimed an Honorary Citizen of Jingdezhen, China. Higby recently retired as Vice President Emeritus of the International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva, Switzerland.
