Adrian Sandstrom was born and raised on a farm in rural Iowa, just outside of Fort Dodge. His first introduction to ceramics, specifically the throwing wheel, came during an art class in his junior year of high school.
"I was immediately fascinated with the wheel, in particular the way my art teacher, Mr. Palmer, would transform a shapeless, sort of useless piece of clay into a perfect form- a bowl- in movements that seemed completely effortless."

"My current work deals with the idea of how the design and form of the pot relate to one’s life. We are all born the same; it is the bumps and curves along our path that lead us to significant endings. Each pot has the potential of becoming anything but all start with a dark base. The dark bases keep everything grounded. However I ask grounded to what? The idea of what we are supposed to be and how we are supposed to live, or grounded to the idea that everything starts off the same and you create your ending."