Arnold Zimmerman (born 1954), also known as Arnie Zimmerman, is an American ceramic artist. He was born December 13, 1954, in Poughkeepsie, New York. He received a BFA degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1977 and an MFA degree from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1979. He then apprenticed as a potter in Lincolnshire, England from 1972 to 1973, and then apprenticed as a stone carver in the Provence quarry of France from 1974 to 1975. In 1990, he worked in Portugal producing ceramic tiles.