While honoring the child within me & the environment, I make natural pigments and paper pulp and upcycle objects. My sustainability interests emanate from positive childhood experiences in nature and beekeeping in Honduras. Like a magpie, I incorporate found objects to turn junk into art, a metaphor for my childhood traumas. Nature inspires and heals me.

Bio: Kathy, an Equinox Studios’ artist (Seattle), was a fellow in eight art residencies including in Spain and Costa Rica. She’s exhibited and has won awards in national juried shows, has had four solo shows, and has published her art and essays in national journals. She’s a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Honduras), where she served as a beekeeper and public-school teacher. Kathy received an MFA in visual art from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in 2022, two years after retiring as a literacy professor. She earned a PhD in Language Education from Indiana University in 1998.