Paul Sacaridiz

Paul Sacaridiz has a background in art making, teaching, administration, and leadership in higher education and the nonprofit sector. As a sculptor he is interested in the collision of abstraction, urban planning, utopian systems, and the seemingly impossible task of understanding something in its entirety. He has produced multiple large-scale projects for Philadelphia Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, among others.

Sacaridiz has been named a fellow with the National Council of Arts Administrators and has most recently served on the board of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). He has been the recipient of numerous artist residencies including Ragdale Foundation (IL), Vermont Studio Center, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (ME), and Arts/Industry at Kohler Co. Sacaridiz holds an MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He is also an alumnus of the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology. In 2022, Sacaridiz accepted the position of Maxine and Stuart Frankel Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art.