Amy Gogarty taught at ACAD in Calgary for sixteen years prior to relocating in 2006 to Vancouver, where she works as an independent researcher, artist, and writer. She makes functional and sculptural ceramics and is the author of numerous critical essays, reviews or presentations relating to visual art and craft practice. In 2021, she was named an Honorary Member of NCECA, the National Council of Education in the Ceramic Arts, and she was short-listed for the Canadian Crafts Federation Robert Jekyll Award for Leadership in Craft. She sits on the Board of the North-West Ceramics Foundation and is a passionate supporter of ceramics in British Columbia.