A life in color and clay Kathryn Evelyn Bard Cherry began her path in Quincy, Illinois. Her hands learned the delicate discipline of fine arts through studies at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, the New York School of Arts, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In those early years, much of her focus rested on the surface of porcelain. She worked with china paintings, a medium that requires a steady hand and a quiet patience. This period of her life was marked by a specific kind of precision, where floral subjects were captured on ceramic forms. The 1904 St. and Louis World's Fair brou…