Temple University

Lauren Sandler is a ceramic artist and educator whose work utilizes the layered and complex history of clay as a place to unearth stories, particularly those that have been erased, distorted, or rewritten. Through the familiarity and accessibility of ceramic objects, she challenges the presumptive neutrality of material culture. Her practice looks to goods associated with ceramic objects, such as tea, sugar, coffee, salt, and the systems that support their production, to examine economies of control that constitute migration, occupation, commodification, and labor.

Sandler exhibits nationally, and gives talks, workshops, and publishes work concerning contemporary and historic issues in ceramics. Sandler was the inaugural recipient of the College Art Association’s Michael Aurbach Fellowship for Excellence in Visual Art. She served on the Board of The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts as Director at Large from 2019-2022. 

MFA, Ceramics, Penn State University, 2007
BFA, Ceramics, State University of New York, New Paltz, 2004
BA, Anthropology, Ithaca College, 1995