2025, 19 H x 20 W x 10 D, Media: Earthenware / Terracotta, Mixed Media, Firing Process: Low-fire, Oxidation, Surface: Engobe / Slip / Underglaze
In flight is a series of work exploring how birds connect humans to landscape. The background represents a map combining two disparate places where the depicted bird can be found. Despite changes in climate and landscape, birds demonstrate the flexibility of home and belonging.
2025, 23 H x 22 W x 12 D, Media: Earthenware / Terracotta, Mixed Media, Firing Process: Low-fire, Oxidation
In flight is a series of work exploring how birds connect humans to landscape. The background represents a map combining two disparate places where the depicted bird can be found. Despite changes in climate and landscape, birds demonstrate the flexibility of home and belonging.
2026, 17 H x 12 W x 8 D, Media: Earthenware / Terracotta, Mixed Media, Firing Process: Low-fire, Oxidation, Surface: Engobe / Slip / Underglaze
The sabal palm is the Florida state tree and for indigenous people it was an important species, providing shade, building materials and food. This series depicts animals and plants who also depend on and live with sabal palm.
2026, 14 H x 12 W x 4 D, Media: Earthenware / Terracotta, Mixed Media, Firing Process: Low-fire, Oxidation, Surface: Engobe / Slip / Underglaze
The sabal palm is the Florida state tree and for indigenous people it was an important species, providing shade, building materials and food. This series depicts animals and plants who also depend on and live with sabal palm.
2026, 14 H x 10 W x 5 D, Media: Earthenware / Terracotta, Mixed Media, Firing Process: Low-fire, Oxidation, Surface: Engobe / Slip / Underglaze
The sabal palm is the Florida state tree and for indigenous people it was an important species, providing shade, building materials and food. This series depicts animals and plants who also depend on and live with sabal palm.
2026, 17 H x 12 W x 5 D, Media: Earthenware / Terracotta, Mixed Media, Firing Process: Low-fire, Oxidation, Surface: Engobe / Slip / Underglaze
The sabal palm is the Florida state tree and for indigenous people it was an important species, providing shade, building materials and food. This series depicts animals and plants who also depend on and live with sabal palm.
2023, 6’x4’x24”, Media: Mixed Media, Wild Clay/Raw Clay
Glacial Drift is a topographical map of the KU Field Station, presenting a different perspective of the landscape.
2023, 30”x30”x 5” table 18” x30” wall, Media: Mixed Media, Wild Clay/Raw Clay
Berth references the many bedded down grasses I saw at the Field Station where deer had been laying, their populations growing denser and denser with the lack of green open spaces.
2023, 24”x24”x6”, Media: Mixed Media, Wild Clay/Raw Clay
2023, 144” x 25” x 10”, Media: Mixed Media, Porcelain
Goldenrod demonstrates the diversity of the prairie through the exploration of one genus, solidago.
Artist Statement
Influenced by my rural childhood picking dewberries and digging for clay, I focus on our relationship to land and the natural world within my artistic practice. I map the connections between humans, plants, animals, and place. I use foraged or local materials, when possible, to nurture my relationship with land. Responsibly foraged or cultivated plants become paper, ink, or natural dye. I use a regional clay and source local wood. I create mixed media sculptures depicting the animals and plants that I encounter within the ecosystems I call home. Through these sculptures, I explore the network of life that surrounds and sustains me, encouraging this exploration in the viewer as well. Inspired by the teachings of Indigenous and Black feminist thinkers, I resist the extraction and abstraction of Western knowledge systems. Through my art, I emphasize connection and relationship to promote healing. My intention is to inspire my audience to reconnect with the natural world.
Bio
Kirsten Taylor is a multimedia artist living in Northern Florida. She uses her practice to map the connections between human, plants, animals, and place. Taylor grew up in the Blackland Prairie region of North Texas and is influenced by her rural upbringing. Taylor holds an MFA from the University of Kansas and a BA in Studio Art from Baylor University. She completed two years of post-baccalaureate study at Utah State University in ceramics. Her practice encompasses mixed media sculpture, poetry, and social practice projects. She regularly incorporates foraged materials into her work such as clay and dye plants. Taylor has exhibited nationally at venues including 108 Contemporary, Red Lodge Clay Center, and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. She was the Natural Resources Artist-in-Residence through the Johnson County Parks and Recreation District in 2022 and Ceramic Artist-in-Residence at the University of Central Missouri in 2025. She received commissions from the Spencer Museum of Art for temporary sculptures in 2020 and 2021. For the 22-23 academic year she was an art researcher at the University of Kansas’s Field Station. She has organized social practice projects centered around habitat restoration and ecosystem knowledge. She currently teaches at Florida State University.