Katherine Frye was raised in Baltimore, Maryland with a previous successful career as a professional ballet dancer before retiring to attend Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. She received her BFA with concentrations in glass and ceramics and a minor in Art History with a research interest of Ancient Native American Art of the Americas. Originally pursuing a path in illustration and painting; Frye quickly changed her mind after being dazzled by the performance and elegance required to make a simple cup. Hot glass proved to be a physical challenge that required a similar concentration, practice, and discipline that ballet had previously required of her. Katherine combines mixed media with a broad range of glass techniques including hot shop, hot sculpting, casting, powder printing and flame-working to incorporate into surreal anthropomorphic objects and drawings. Frye was VCU’s School of the Arts Dean’s Scholarship’s nominee for the Craft Material Studies Department and has received partial/full scholarships to Penland School of Crafts and Pilchuck Glass School where she studied under scientific glassblower and artist Kiva Ford and botanical glass artist Debora Moore.