Keavy Murphree is a Nashville-based artist. Murphree creates ceramic sculptures resembling fantastical human faces and animal creatures. She is inspired by her childhood going to museums with her parents and life with her children. Murphree worked as an industrial designer for many years before opening her own studio in 2018. Her work draws on contemporary design and shows a deep reverence for folk and indigenous art discovered in the Americas. Many of those objects were imbued with the spiritual life of the cultures from which they originated. Murphree's ceramics, including vases, sculptures, and side tables, similarly seem inhabited by friendly and benevolent house gods watching over family homes.