​Wade MacDonald was born in Nashville, Tennessee and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan by two former opera singers. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art Education from Western Michigan University. In 2014, Wade received a Master’s of Fine Arts Degree in Studio Art with a concentration in Ceramics from Michigan State University. As a graduate student, Wade received the Stanley and Selma Hollander Graduate Fellowship in Studio Art, the Varg-Sullivan Award for Distinguished Research, and the John and Susan Berding Family Foundation Endowment Juried MFA Prize. Wade has exhibited work nationally and has completed artist residencies at Banff Centre, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Red Lodge Clay Center and Zentrum für Keramik. In 2018, Wade received the NCECA Emerging Artist award and was featured in American Craft Magazine's August/September 2018 Issue. Wade lives with his wife, Anne Herbert in Birmingham, Alabama and is Assistant Professor of Ceramics in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.