A graduate of the well-respected ceramics program at The School for American Craftsmen at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she completed her Associates degree, Sarah Katz went on to attend the California Institute for the Arts in Oakland, where she obtained her BFA in Sculpture. In addition, she spent a year at Philadelphia College of Art (now called University of the Arts) as an exchange student studying in the sculpture program. Since 1994 Ms. Katz has shown extensively throughout the New York metropolitan area. A member of the National Sculpture Society and the International Sculpture Society, Ms. Katz has taught pottery and figurative sculpture at the Jewish Community Center program in Tenafly, NJ and a popular class called "The Figure in Clay" at the Craft's Students League in New York.
ON HER WORK:
"I like to work with my hands and to tell stories. My work is both
figurative and literary, in the sense of telling a story. I make
reference to sculptural traditions that can be traced back to the
small figurative sculptures made by Meissen, Hummel and other iconic
images drawn from cartoons and heroic sculpture, but on a smaller
scale. The raw clay shaped into these figures, sometimes combined with
other materials, and the stories they tell, create different layers of
meaning and interpretation, which speaks to who we are to each other
and to ourselves."
---Sarah Katz, 2007
Affiliations: National Sculpture Society, International Sculpture Society, Artist's Space