Kathy Carter is a 1974 graduate of the University of Kansas with a B.A.E degree. She is also a registered nurse, earning her A.D.N. degree from Tennessee State University in 1982. After working as a R.N. at several are hospitals, Kathy retired from nursing completely in 1996 in order to devote more time to her studio ceramics and teaching.

Like many artists, Kathy has worked at a variety of day jobs” ranging from construction to critical care nursing, teaching art, and a few oddball tasks that (supposedly) enrich ones life experience, but little else. Of all these jobs, her focus always returned to working with clay, and teaching ceramics. While residing in the Nashville are for the past twenty-five years, Kathy has taught at Hendersonville Arts Council, been the “artist in residence at Hunter Middle School, taught in several capacities at the Watkins College of Art & Design, the Renaissance Center in Dickson, and is currently working teaching with Metro Arts in Centennial Arts Center and the Whites Creek Community Center.

Like most Americans, life outside the studio consists of juggling time and space. Kathy is married to a very fine craftsmen who makes unique furniture pieces. They have one child who has decided that she loved to fly, became a pilot, a flight instructor, and is currently an airport manager.

In the recent past, Kathy has begun signing work with the word “yatsar”, an ancient word usually translated as “the potter” and indicates a process of transformation.

The Carter habitat is shared with a variety of wildlife, including two self-appointed guardians disguised as cats!