KATE BROCKMAN 

Kate Brockman is a British-born sculptor based in Philadelphia. She began her formal art training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in 1986, focusing on figurative sculpture and the nude. She studied with Evangelos Frudakis and Myron Barnstone and has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the Philadelphia region, including the James A. Michener Museum. Her work is held in national and international private collections and in the permanent collections of PAFA’s Fellowship, the Harriet Tubman Museum, and Culver Girls Academy.

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An award-winning artist, Kate has received honors including two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants, the Alex J. Ettl Grant from the National Sculpture Society (2011), and NSS’s Gold Medal for her portrait Fearless in Fear: A Young Harriet Tubman (2021).

A passionate bronze caster, she built her own foundry after graduating from PAFA and continues to cast all her own work. After a hiatus to raise and homeschool her daughter, she has returned to full-time studio practice.

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Kate is a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society and served on its board (2020–2023). She currently teaches sculpture at PAFA

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