Kurt is originally from Santa Rosa, California but now makes his home in the mountains of Western North Carolina. He has been a resident at The Archie Bray Foundation, Penland School of Crafts, and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. He has attended various institutes of higher learning including The University of Wyoming (degree in education), SUNY New Paltz, NSCAD, and Louisiana State University (MFA). In 2009-2010, he was the Fergus Post MFA fellow at The Ohio State University.

I am attracted to the raw and the unrefined, the messy and lowbrow. In my work I seek to include imagery that touches on the familiar but is seen through my own distorted lens. I look at the visual language of my environment: advertising logos, cartoons, graphic novels, sports-team mascots, and iconic figures in public life. By including such imagery on the surface of my pottery I hope to connect to the viewer by providing a glimpse of something universal and familiar, yet slightly surreal. I am also influenced by centuries of folk pottery and the archetypal iconography found upon them. It is my hope to show the great amount of admiration I have for this work but also slightly lampoon them. Traditionally, folk potters used a variety of formulas to compose surfaces of their work. By shuffling and recombining these proven formula, it is my hope that the muse of familiarity appears cross-dressed as innovation.