Katharine Dawn

Katharine Dawn was born and raised in Western Washington, she attended the Evergreen State college where she studied Law and Policy. After spending most of a decade working as a raft guide and ski instructor in the Rocky Mountains, she returned to Seattle where she would discover her passion for ceramics at North Seattle College in 2017. Currently Katharine works as a teacher at Illuminated Clay in Tacoma, WA, a studio that offers free and sliding scale ceramics classes to the BIPOC community. As a Lesbian Latinx woman, Katharine strives to work with artists and communities that want to create equity in the ceramic art community through providing more thoughtful and affordable access to classes and firing services. Katharine is an organizer of the Rain or Shine community market, a market striving to prioritize the BIPOC artist community in the PNW. Katharine strives to create functional pieces that bring the user joy.