Kay is a lifelong artist. In her childhood, she could be found digging up clay along the lake shores of Northern Maine, crafting with her grandmother, and weaving novels through many a college-ruled notebook. After graduating college in 2017 with a BFA in creative writing, she began pursuing art while teaching high school. Her first official medium was photography (she still has a love for imperfect film photographs), but her creative spirit eventually brought her to ceramics and print-making.

Now she lives in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and spends her days teaching pottery lessons and crafting her own forms. Kay’s work is a multi-step process that involves using a personal memory or family story to translate into ceramic, woodland form. She herself is often viewed as a rabbit while the others in her life take different forms: pine martens, foxes, grouse. Her larger, illustrative pieces start as linocuts before being replicated on clay. Bits of these larger works (birch branches, blooms, butterflies) are featured on her smaller, more traditionally functional pieces. It’s a full circle moment as she can still be found digging up clay, crafting with her partner, and etching stories into form.