Kathy has been an active studio artist since graduating from UW Whitewater in 1996 with a BSE in Art Education. In Tennessee, she taught dozens of classes and workshops at the Appalachian Center for Crafts. Kathy also taught many other workshops at places like Kent University and Pewabic Pottery in Detroit. She was an adjunct instructor in ceramics at Virginia Commonwealth University and ran a ceramics program at Crooked Tree Arts Center in Michigan. Some of the venues at which she has exhibited include Baylor University in Texas, Lincoln Arts in California, Native Soil in Chicago and Lancaster Museum of Art in Pennsylvania. Kathy has been a resident artist at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine and at Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana. She also spent four months working and researching at the Center for Ceramics in Berlin and at Guldagergaard in Denmark. Kathy continues teaching ceramics at Gallery One and elementary school at Discovery Lab in Ellensburg as well as keeping up with her studio work. Currently, she is exploring the earthy colors and satiny surfaces achieved through the use of terra sigillata in oxidation firing and their togetherness with the bold textures of wood fired elements.
