Vicki Kocher Paret is a functional potter and a representational painter of still life and landscape, exploring beauty in objects and place. Her work is collected throughout the United States in private, institutional and corporate collections.

She began her formal training with a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work in clay began while completing a Master of Arts in Teaching in Art Education from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and she has taken additional classes at Harvard Ceramics Studio, Mudflat Studio and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

Vicki divides her studio time over the last fifteen years with teaching young people at the DeCordova Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, serving as Chair of the Art Department for Waring School in Beverly, and teaching both adults and children at the Arlington Center for the Arts as well as at the Eliot School.