Jari Vesterinen , born 1964, has been working as a potter, artist and teacher since he made his BA in Ceramics in 1994. During the final thesis and after that he made reseach for Finnish clay resources, red clay and kaolin, and possibities to use these clays in studio pottery.

He was a full time teacher for 15 years, 2000-2015, at Hame University of Applied Sciences. The main themes in teaching were architectural glass and ceramics, and studio ceramics. Vesterinen made his MA in Art Education in 2012 at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland.

Since 2015 Vesterinen and his partner, Aba Luostarinen, has been running Glass and Ceramics Center Kuu, in Mallusjoki, Southern Finland, and focused in wood fired ceramics. Jari Vesterinen was an resident artist in Starworks Clay Studio in 2015.