Shoji Satake
Assistant Professor
MFA Indiana University, Bloomington
Shoji Satake, born in Kyoto, Japan and raised in Anchorage, Alaska received his BA in Studio Art and BA in Government from The College of William and Mary in 1996. He received his MFA in Ceramics from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2004. He is currently the Ceramics Area Coordinator at West Virginia University. Before his arrival to Morgantown, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, 3-D Area Coordinator and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. In addition to teaching, Shoji has served as one of the Director-at-Large for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Board of Directors and currently serves NCECA as a Special Presidential Appointee to the Council. In 2004-2005, he taught as a visiting faculty at both Hope College in Holland, Michigan and Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
Shoji has conducted workshops and exhibited nationally and internationally. Some of his most recent activities include the USA/Japan Exhibition at Santa Fe Clay, the 2004 Summer Visiting Artist Workshop at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, the Jingdezhen, China 1000 years of Porcelain International Exhibition, “Yellow Ball Project”, Antwerp, Belgium, and the exhibition “From Hoosier Hands” at the Richmond Fine Arts Museum in Richmond, Indiana.