Katie Burkett is a glass and mixed media sculptor from a small farming town in Northeast, Ohio. She is inspired by nature, anatomy, and the human psyche and uses glass to articulate the ideas that grow from these curiosities. Burkett earned her Masters Degree is Studio Arts with a focus in Glass at Kent State University in the summer of 2021. Recently, Burkett moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma to become a full-time studio technician and instructor at the Tulsa Glassblowing School.

“The sculptural work I make is an exploration of themes surrounding gender, sex, fertility, mortality, grief, and beauty. These works act as an abstract self-portrait: Individually, they encapsulate moments in time and feelings surrounding them, distilling them into tangible objects — all of which embody some aspect of living with and within the anatomy that I exist in. Through manipulating malleable materials such as glass I can conceive something that conceptually reflects a part of the body or an event that surrounds that anatomy. I think that these works reflect on the importance placed on the body and how it literally acts as a vessel of consumption, a vessel in which life is brought forth through, a vessel in which all our thoughts and feelings are created within.” — Burkett