Kim has been working in clay for 14 years and teaching with us for eight. She is allergic to “do not touch” signs in art and is drawn to clay as a medium that fosters the connection between sight and touch, inviting interaction, not detachment. Her current work explores the materiality of clay, its raw, elemental beauty, and its inherent tactile qualities.

She is a wheel-thrower, coil-builder, and kurinuki-lover who uses dark clay bodies, slips and slip application processes to create natural canvases. Her surfaces feature unconventional aggregates and textural additives including Icelandic volcanic ash and lava rock, Bolivian wild clay, and locally-gathered, sands, rocks, minerals, bricks, clays and gardening aggregates. All of the breathtaking natural terrains she’s admired in her travels inspire her textures, and she draws form inspiration from Japanese, Scandinavian, and South American design.

Kim’s work has been featured in juried fine craft shows including the Smithsonian and Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Shows and galleries and museum shops around the country. When she isn’t teaching, Kim can be found working in her Salem, MA home studio with her husband, cat, and “studio assistant” pup.