Kerin Rose is an artist and educator based in Burlington, Vermont, whose work explores the intimate relationship between material, memory, and the natural world, shaped in part by her experience as a small ‘d’ deaf artist.

Originally trained as a metalsmith and jewelry artist, her practice evolved in response to the environmental impact of the field. Rather than abandon the medium, she reimagined it,  becoming an early adopter of recycled precious metal casting and carving her forms from beeswax produced by the hives she keeps with her sister. These processes embed cycles of care, stewardship, and interdependence directly into the work, grounding each piece in both origin and intention.

Her award-winning work has been exhibited widely and featured in galleries, publications, television and film, carrying a quiet but palpable connection between hand, material, and place.

In recent years, Kerin has expanded into ceramic sculpture, embracing scale as a way to deepen connection and move beyond the intimacy of the body into shared space. This shift reflects a long-held desire to create work that invites a more immediate, physical, and collective experience.

Across mediums, her practice remains rooted in an essential question: how to create beauty without severing our relationship to the living world.