Originally trained as an architect Sandra Torres eventually transferred her creative outlet into clay work. Her ceramic education started at an experimental studio in Mexico City followed by hands on learning in Southern California and the study of traditional clay work and techniques in Oaxaca, Mexico and Jingdeshen, China. An apprenticeship at Studio Pieter Stockmans in Genk, Belgium, lead to an artist residency at the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary, after which she embraced the industrial process of slip casting.