Ceramist and Art Historian Ross Schartel living and working in Kansas City.

Graduating from Pittsburg State University in 2014 with a degree in history and a minor in art, Schartel is currently researching the work of mid-century color theorist and painter Robert Clark Nelson.

Schartel works in a variety of mediums including sculpture, ceramics, and fiber. Schartel's ceramics focuses on working through quarter-life crisis fears, monetary short-comings, imminent threats of death, and the ideas of being forgotten, through functional pottery and sculpture.