Therese Kim is an artist living in Western  Massachusetts. In 2013 she opened a dedicated space for her sugar work and started a new business called Extraordinary Confectionery. Her space is licensed and certified to be used for her sugar work. Out of this unique space she is able to design and create edible sugar art for clients throughout New England and beyond.

 

She works with sugarpaste, gingerbread, molding chocolate, cast sugar, sugar lace, edible paper, gelatin, edible paints, edible papers and printing, and designs and builds her own molds for use in her sugar work.  

 

 

With a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her experience as a botanical painter, Therese brings technical skills and a design vision that make her sculptures true works of art. Each creation is unique, from her tiny marzipan mushrooms to her larger chocolate pieces. 

 

Therese is interested in old candy molds from all parts of the world and utilizes them in her work whenever she can, bringing the very old works of art to life again.  

 

Her paintings were exhibited in two solo shows in 2010 and 2013 featuring rare and endangered plants with a focus on native orchids found in New England. In 2010 she worked for a month in Costa Rica making paintings of native plants for the Cloudbridge Reserve, in San Gerrardo, and continues to paint rare and hard to find plants in and around New England.

 

In 2012 Therese's gingerbread work was named in the top ten at the Grove Park Inn National Gingerbread Competition in Asheville North Carolina, and in December 2013 her gingerbread work was featured on the PBS show  "Arts In America"  that was shown nationally on PBS.