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Photo Credit: Ed Watkins, 2006
Kathy Butterly
Photo Credit: Ed Watkins, 2006
Photo Credit: Ed Watkins, 2006

Kathy Butterly

United States, b. 1963
Place of BirthAmityville, New York, United States
BiographyKathy Butterly received her B.F.A. degree from Moore College of Art in 1986. In 1990, she received her M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis. At Davis, Butterly was a pupil of Robert Arneson, an influential ceramicist and leader in the revolutionary Northern California Funk movement. Butterly creates small and quirky ceramic sculptures that are technically demanding and at the same time full of wit. She lives and works in New York.
Education: B.F.A., Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, 1986; M.F.A., University of California, Davis, 1990