Kate Frank is a ceramic artist born and raised in New York City. She earned her BA cum laude from Connecticut College in 2019, where she received the Jane Bill Award for Maintaining the Highest Standard of Work in the Art Department, and her MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2025, where her thesis was selected by the exhibition director for a special showing at the Gelman Gallery.

Before graduate study, Kate worked as a full-time lower school teacher in New York City, an experience that continues to shape her belief in making as a communal act. Her teaching and studio practice share a commitment to genuine inclusion, creating the space, tools, and attention that allow people to feel seen, valued, and connected through the work of their hands.

Kate resists exactness. Her moldmaking and handbuilding keep creative labor visible, and her surfaces accumulate through hand-painted underglaze and carved line. Drawing on the maximalism and feminist undercurrents of the Pattern and Decoration movement, she blurs the line between vessel and sculpture, treating beauty itself as a form of function.

Kate has worked as a studio assistant to established artists and as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at RISD. Her work has been shown at the Gelman Gallery, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island Convention Center, SK Gallery in Manhattan, and other venues. She is a member of the National Council on Education for Ceramic Art (NCECA) and is affiliated with Sculpture Space NYC.