Glass and mixed media artist, Katie Burkett, is from the North East Ohio region. She graduated from Kent State University with her M.A. in Glass during the Spring of 2021 and continues to pursue making sculptural work while teaching. She has taught at Universities such as Salisbury University (2018) and Kent State University (2021) as adjunct faculty. Katie also won first place in the Summit Art Space’s show Boschian: Beautifully bizarre, in 2019. In the fall of 2021, her thesis work, The Silence of the Situation at Hand, was acquired by the Artist Archives of the Western Reserve’s private collection during a show they hosted, Kindred Objects. This sculpture explores themes surrounding the passage of time, encapsulating brief but significant moments through found objects and sculpted glass.        After Graduate school, Katie worked as a studio Technician and Glassblowing Instructor at the Tulsa Glassblowing School from 2022 to 2024, where she worked with Veterans, teaching them how to blow glass and helping with TGS’s summer workshop intensives. In the spring of 2024, she left Oklahoma and assisted Davin Ebanks teaching a workshop at Pilchuck Glass School and again at Haystack Mountain School of Craft. Katie was also invited that same summer to assist Jamex and Einar Dela Torre during their workshop at Penland School of Craft. Most recently, Katie showed her work, G-50, at the Belger Arts Gallery in 2024 during their Brimming: Goblet Invitational. Katie believes that glassblowing, or any other part of her practice, is about learning who you are and to not be shy about creating objects that share your perspective of the world. This last summer (2025), Katie was the Artist Assistant for Artist in Residence, Wendy Redstar, at Pilchuck Glass School. Currently, she is an independent contractor and is teaching Intermediate Glassblowing this Fall of 2025 at Kent State University.