Katherine Fu (b. 2003, Ohio) is a ceramist, educator, and writer invested in the intersection of historical and contemporary symbols—both natural and unreal—as seen in their surrounding cultural narratives. Raised in Maryland by Chinese immigrant parents, they work with ceramic craft as a framing device to highlight and bridge the disparate narratives and symbolism of their dual upbringing. Writing not only supplements their studio practice but activates the formal process of distilling complex meaning into singular moments. 


Katherine graduated with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a BFA in Ceramics and a concentration in Theory and History of Art and Design. They are continuing into a fifth year Master of Arts in Art + Design Education with a focus on learning outside the traditional K–12 art classroom and craft as pedagogy in art education. Katherine is a recipient of the 2025 Herbert and Claiborne Pell Medal for History and has exhibited at the Bell Gallery (Providence, RI), Gelman Gallery (Providence, RI), the Franz Collection (Taipei, Taiwan), and MenLo International Studio and Gallery (Jingdezhen, China). Presently, he is interested in exploring ideas of provenance—how do stories about our ancestry become personal mythologies that both retroactively shape legacy and mold the future?