Artist's Statement

Kathi Tighe has been working with clay for more than half her life. She took her first wheel-throwing class in college and returned to clay a decade later with classes at the MIT Student Art Association, followed by a clay intensive at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Kathi began working as a studio artist at the Ceramics Program at the Office for the Arts at Harvard in 1984. Her early work was primarily decorative, raku-fired vessels, as well as making fine-tuned raku ocarinas. Currently, Kathi loves making functional thrown and altered pots - especially bowls, mugs and 'whiskey' cups. She has taught workshops on fine-tuned ocarinas and other ceramic musical instruments.  Her work has been carried by galleries throughout the US, and can be found in private collections around the world. When she's not making pots or bead jewelry, Kathi sings with three different choral groups, and dances with Muddy River Morris dancers.