Kim Harty is an artist and scholar whose work investigates the connection between craft and performance through sculpture, installation, video, and performance. She is heavily informed by her training as a glassblower and is interested in undoing traditional methods of making and investigating how materials can confound their expected function. Harty was a visiting artist in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Art Department Glass Lab in 2013. She is currently Section Lead and Associate Professor of Glass at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan.