Sally Brogden received undergraduate degrees in art history and studio art from the University of Michigan and her MFA in Ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics. She has exhibited widely at venues including Pewabic Pottery, MI; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; National Museum of Slovenia, Slovenia; Santa Reparata Gallery, Italy; Islip Art Museum, NY; Jingdezhen Ceramics Museum, China; Holter Museum of Art, MT; Westmont Museum of Art, CA; Beijing International Expo, China; ICA Bocca Lupo Gallery, Italy; Ceramic Center Berlin, Germany; Santa Fe Clay, NM; Vertigo Art Space, CO; Lewis and Clark College, OR; Phillips Museum of Art, PA; Belger Art District, MO; Ichon Ceramic Center, Korea; Susquehanna Art Museum, PA; Ogden Museum of Art, LA; and the Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ. She has been a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation, the International Center for Art in Italy, the Pottery Workshop in China, the Ceramic Center–Berlin in Germany, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, and the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art in Poland.

Her work is included in several books, including Ceramics: A Potter’s Handbook and The Craft and Art of Clay by Susan Peterson; A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence by Peter Held; Taking Measure: American Ceramic Art at the New Millennium; Electric Kiln Ceramics by Richard Zakin; and 500 Ceramic Sculptures by Glen R. Brown. She has lectured widely at institutions such as Vanderbilt University, University of Colorado, University of Illinois, Brigham Young University, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT; South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN; Hochschule für Kunst und Design, Halle, Germany; Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art, Wrocław, Poland; Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, Germany; Shui-Li International Ceramic Symposium, Shui-Li, Taiwan; the 7th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, South Korea; and many others.