Katie Kimmel is a California based artist who works mainly in ceramic sculpture. After receiving her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015 Katie relocated to a small town in the Mojave Desert and acquired several dogs. After adopting her first dog Pony in 2016, dogs became an all-encompassing obsession. She is delighted by their personalities and fantasize about what their jobs might be, dreams, conversations… and use these ideas to inform her work. Through Kimmel’s artwork she hope to incite the same dumb joy that dogs experience all day every day. As a solution to her remote studio location Katie has gained a strong interest in e-commerce as a way to show work. Katie has been working as a full time artist selling home-goods, apparel and artwork through her website katiekimmel.com since 2017.  

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