Kate Burdick Barnholtz moved to Wellfleet at the age of seven. She studied ceramics at Cape Cod Tech and fine arts at California State University where she had the opportunity to work with Jack Reilly and Lawrence Gipe, earning her degree summa cum laude.
She has recently studied still life with David Leffel, Jackie Kamin, and Lisa Towers. Kate creates ceramics and paints still life, alla prima, in oil in her studio in California.