The driving force in Katie Kimmel’s ceramic art is playfulness. Describing her humor as 98% angel, 2% devil, her pieces tend to center around themes like food and animals: a flower vase shaped like a dog or a ceramic shrimp cocktail set. It isn’t meant to be practical, but with almost 40k followers on Instagram – people don’t seem to mind that very much.\n\n\n\n
\u201cA lot of the mediums that I work with are associated with kid crafts, and it could be that I only feel that way because they are mediums I\u2019ve been using since I was a kid,\u201d said Kimmel in an interview with Consort Design. \u201cSometimes I\u2019ll really start to think about my work and I\u2019m like, \u2018Ok, I\u2019m not an artist, I\u2019m a 10-year-old living in an apartment\u2019. Other times I\u2019m like, \u2018I AM an artist and my soul is 7 feet tall.\u2019 I think that is a weird insecurity a lot of artists have \u2013 so maybe I became an artist when I started feeling that way.\u201d\n\n\n\n