Why Make? Episode 50: Kimberly Winkle
from Why Make? Podcast Hosted by Erik Wolken
On this episode of Why Make? we talk with Kim Winkle, an arts administrator full time teacher and artist. Kim is a Professor of Art and the Director of the School of Art, Craft & Design at Tennessee Technological University’s Appalachian Center for Craft. A native of Oklahoma Kim holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Ceramics from the University of Oklahoma. She then started her MFA in ceramics at San Diego State University but during her first year was persuaded to take a class in the Applied Design, Furniture and Woodworking program then headed by Wendy Maruyama. Where she then earned her MFA in furniture design. Winkle’s work is well known for the elaborate surface markings she uses on her colorful turned and carved forms that she somehow finds time to make while being director of the Appalachian Center for Craft and maintaining a busy teaching schedule. Please join us as we find out what inspires maker Kim Winkle!
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