Kathy began taking pottery classes in the 1970''s when she adopted a child from Viet Nam and hoped clay play might assist with her fine coordination. It was Kathy who got hooked, but she then put the clay away for graduate school. A medical anthropologist, she first reduced her teaching load in 2000 to play in the clay, and then retired from university teaching. Still a researcher and writer, she recently completed a history of the only school of nursing ever developed for Native American students and is currently at work on an ethnography of a feminist theological center. Playing in the clay entertains and exercises the other side of her brain.
After throwing pots for some years, Kathy gave her wheel away to concentrate on hand-building, which she finds freer and more gratifying. Nature is the driving theme in Kahoka clay work. (The name merely represents the first two letters of each of Kathy's names.) She uses numerous natural materials, such as leaves, pine needles, and chunks of wood in its creation.
For the past decade, Kahoka Handbuilt Stoneware has been displayed and sold at numerous sites throughout Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.
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