I met Karen almost 13 years ago, during a year abroad program we both attended in Florence, Italy. The story of our friendship goes like this: She sat next to me on the plane on the flight from LAX to Florence. I had packed a sandwich for the plane ride, I offered to share it with her, and she accepted. And we’ve been friends ever since.
These days, Karen is an incredible Brooklyn-based ceramist, sculptor, and educator, but if I had to choose a single word to describe her, it would be: H U S T L E. This girl works 👏SO 👏DAMN 👏HARD and exemplifies the adage of getting out what you put in. On top of all that, she’s one of the funniest damn people I know, so I hope you have as much fun listening to this as we did making it. We talk about discovering her passion on accident, why her process is a constant conversation, and the (shocking) opinion that theater kids were actually cool and intimidating in high school.
🎈 View more of Karen’s work on her website: www.karentepaz.com
🥪 Follow her on her Instagram, @k_tepaz.
🎉 Watch a recent artist talk she did with BKLYN CLAY, here.
And if you were at all curious to see the sculpture of me that she did and then smashed in an alley, look no further:
