Panelist

Andrew Sartorious grew up in Parkersburg, West Virginia. He graduated from the College of Wooster in Ohio with a BA in English literature. Andrew moved to Kochi prefecture in Japan to work as a high school English instructor. While in Japan, Andrew traveled to many historic ceramic centers while in Japan, and began to teach himself how to throw on a potter’s wheel. He returned to America, after four years of living in Japan, to apprentice with Jeff Shapiro in the Hudson River Valley. After completing his year and a half apprenticeship Andrew moved to Long Island, New York and built and fired a small salt and wood kiln in Mattituck, New York. In the spring of 2019, Andrew received a Master’s in Fine Art focused in ceramics from State University of New York at New Paltz. Andrew is currently the Program Manager and Lead Instructor at The Oki Doki Studio in Germantown, NY. Andrew lives, works, creates and teaches in Germantown and loves building an educational program focused around his life’s learning in atmospheric firings. He continues to create functional and sculptural work that explores the processes of wood and soda firing locally harvested materials.