Andrew Urch has exhibited pottery at art festivals including the Uptown Art Fair, Minneapolis, MN; Riverfront Festival, Northfield, Minnesota; and Cambridge Pottery Festival, Cambridge, Wisconsin.

Raised on a farm near West Concord, Minnesota, Urch graduated from Saint Olaf College in 1996. After four years of deferring his interest in ceramics, including two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger, West Africa, Urch returned to the US and purchased his first potter’s wheel in 2001. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife and two sons.

–2011