Ward Doubet has been professionally focused on craftsmanship in the visual arts for over thirty-five years. After completing undergraduate majors in art and philosophy, he operated Wataga Stoneware, producing and marketing high-fired functional pottery. He earned the MFA in ceramics at the University of Oregon, and studied art history, art theory, and taught the history of art and ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Doubet taught ceramics, design and art history at North Dakota State University and served as interim chairperson for the Department of Music and Art. He came to Tennessee Tech as the director of the Appalachian Center for Craft, was the first chairperson of the Department of Art and he was instrumental in developing Tennessee Tech’s School of Art, Craft and Design. Doubet is currently teaching foundations courses full-time and serves as the foundations coordinator.