She received her BFA from California State University Long Beach, studied with Adrian Saxe at UCLA, and worked with Judy Chicago on the Dinner Party after graduation.

Her work has been exhibited internationally and is included in private and public collections including Renwick Gallery/Smithsonian Institute, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts and SC Johnson Collection. She is widely published in design books and periodicals that include The New York Times, Metropolitan Home, Art Forum, Elle Decor and Ceramics Monthly.

A full time studio artist and part time teacher, Kathy has taught at Parsons School of Design and been a guest lecturer at The Brooklyn Museum, SUNY New Paltz, Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem and currently teaches at Greenwich House Pottery.
Kathy is the recipient of a NYFA Fellowship and EBAY artist technology grant.

Recently she travelled to Yunnan China to work with Tibetan Potters as a Design Consultant for Aid To Artisans/ The Mountain Institute/USAID.