Our Story

KK Creates is Kimberly Kennedy and her talented crew of artists and craftspeople. Kim has hand-thrown over 100,000 vessels in her 10-year career as a potter. Kim believes that beautiful design inevitably comes from fine craftsmanship. Kim’s fascination with how people interact with ordinary objects—a lip to a cup, a hand on a bowl—inspires the subtle details in his work.

Kim grew up in a little town. She spent much of her childhood close to the natural world on ranches and farms. Her father was a farrier, livestock investigator, leather worker, traveling cowboy and poet. Kim developed her artist’s eye for detail while watching her father at work. Before completing a degree in ceramics in Minnesota, Kim was enjoying her teenage years in her home town. Over the years Kim worked—to fund her clay habit—in houses selling snacks and refreshments to friends, family and their neighbors.

In 2000, Kim returned to the Black Hills in South Dakota where she threw pots in an old dairy barn. She built a wood-fire kiln that he fed free scrap from the local saw mills. Kim worked in this self-imposed isolation to hone her craft for four years. She moved her studio to the Bay Area in 2004.

For six years, Kim worked as a prototyper and problem solver for Heath Ceramics where she had the opportunity to work with different artists that influenced her. At the same time, she was maintaining her own studio and clients in Berkeley.

In 2010, Kim became a full-time independent potter once again. And from then on, Kim crafted premium dinnerware for her loyal clients. She is now ready to take the world by opening her first ever online store.