Kimberly Winkle—a native of Oklahoma—is a maker who creates furniture and objects using wood and paint; her work displays a balance of form, color, and surface pattern. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including SOFA Chicago, WantedDesign NYC, and the Architectural Digest Home Show. Her work has been included in a number of publications, including American Woodturner, Woodturning Magazine, Fine Woodworking, Woodworker, and Woodworker West magazines, and the books 500 Tables and 500 Chairs. Kimberly has been awarded multiple artist residencies, including the Windgate International Turning Exchange (now WARP) at the Museum for Art in Wood in Philadelphia; the Windgate Artist Residency at SUNY Purchase; the Windgate Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Open Studio Residency; the Windgate Craft Residency at the Vermont Studio Center; Anderson Ranch Arts Center; and the Appalachian Center for Craft. In 2011, she was awarded a State of Tennessee Individual Artist Award; the Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston) John D. Mineck Furniture Fellowship in 2014; and she has been nominated three times for a USA Artist award. Kimberly is a professor and director of the School of Art, Craft & Design at Tennessee Technological University.