Katherine’s studio is also her gallery space, with her work available for purchase.
If you are planning to be in the North Fork
or western Colorado, and want to see
her artwork, please click here to contact us about scheduling a Studio-Gallery visit,
and a tour of Rivendell, too.
Are you interested in Art Assessment or Critique?
For your works-in-progress or completed works?
Or, for matting, framing and presentation insights?
Schedule a session with Katherine now.
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Details on Katherine’s Teaching and Mentoring page.
In 1977, Katherine began working with etching and aquatint, in black and white, always looking for contrasts! And concurrently, she explored color and texture in embroidery with silk, cotton, and wool. Since that beginning, throughout her 33-year artistic career, the majority of Katherine’s work has been based on her plein-air drawings in graphite, pen and ink, and watercolor.
She has been exhibiting and marketing her unique blend of embroidery, printmaking and drawing nationwide, and also mentoring individuals and working with organizations in workshops and secondary art classes, locally, regionally and across the country.
Please click here to go to Katherine’s Teaching & Mentoring Page for details and fee information about the media and concepts she teaches.
Katherine has four basic types of work available:
- Two-sided fiber works—typically embroidered and embellished on monoprints or hand-dyed silks, pieced or whole-cloth.
- Three-dimensional fiber works—typically with whole-cloth surfaces covered with embroidery or drawings—Exploring a variety of fiber media with her embroidery and original drawings, for the past 16 years Katherine has created hand-embroidered folding books of silk, cotton, and linen, containing images and hand stitched text—synthesizing her love of landscape drawing, silk embroidery and reading.
- Framed wall pieces exploring embroidery and drawing with silk paper fusion, hand-made felt, embroidered etchings or monoprints.
- Unframed etchings; ink on paper.
If you are interested in full-size images and information about any work detailed here, please click here to go to our Contact page.
Items of Interest from 2010 and 2011 about Katherine and her work:
• Zeta Omicron Sorority in Cedaredge, Colorado, invited Katherine to judge their 39th Annual Edge of the Cedars Art Exhibit, June 8 through June 12, 2011, at Cedaredge High School. The Gallery Talk for Artists and Interested Public, the Judge’s Reception, and the Awards Presentation took place June 8, from 7 to 9 pm. What extraordinary conversations with the artists in those two hours! Please go to Katherine’s Teaching & Mentoring page for more information about the evening’s art talk.
• Reverend Sharyl Peterson included discussion of Katherine’s multi-dimensional, multi-media construction “Behold,” in her extraordinary book THE INDISPENSIBLE GUIDE TO END-OF-LIFE CARE, published October 2010. Katherine created “Behold” from the ephemera collected during her trip in 2008 to bury her mother’s ashes. The Creative Process took her through the grieving process. It is an honor to have her work included in Rev. Peterson’s end-of-life-care guide; the guide is truly remarkable—-breathtaking in the depth of inspiring and constructive information.
In January 2011, Delta Fine Arts invited Katherine to give another miniworkshop, titled “Drawing Media: Intention & Discovery.” Members and guests (from Paonia, Hotchkiss, Cedaredge, Delta and Montrose), explored graphite, quill pen and ink, and watercolor as she shared her art career experiences with drawing media.
• In October 2010, Delta Fine Arts invited Katherine to give a miniworkshop on Design Fundamentals, titled “Discovering How Intuition and Logic Enhance Artistic Success.” She demonstrated the Art Assessment Process, lead the audience in assessing her work, and then guided them in practice assessment of their own work. The miniworkshop was well-received, running twice as long as originally planned, due to the participants’ depth of engagement in the Process.
• Two embroideries which incorporate original drawing are included in Brown and Salamony’s 1000 ARTISAN TEXTILES: CONTEMPORARY FIBER ART, QUILTS, AND WEARABLES, published in 2010.
• In September and October 2010, Katherine was invited to exhibit work in the remodeled Bank Gallery in the Blue Sage Center for the Arts in Paonia, Colorado. Ellie Goldstein said of the exhibit: “Each and every piece of Katherine’s impresses and astounds. Kudos to the artist. Stunning.”
A Short Katherine Art*Work Herstory—for those of you who are interested!
• BA in Fine Art from the University of Northern Colorado (1978).
• Embroidery and etching 1978-1983. Galleries and fairs and art festivals, files and files full of drawings generated en plein air, and, embroidery and etching needles wielded for hours and hours.
• In 1984 her embroidery and printmaking naturally merged as embroidered etchings; the first, Sugar Babies, (based on her 1982 graphite drawing of young sugar pines along The Ponderosa Way near Grass Valley California), was featured in The Flying Needle, Winter 1986.
• Teacher certification in surface stitchery from the Council of American Embroiderers (1989).
• Barbara Smith’s 1991 international exhibit and book, CELEBRATING THE STITCH: CONTEMPORARY EMBROIDERY OF NORTH AMERICA included one of Katherine’s embroidered etchings.
• K-12 art specialist teacher certification from Black Hills State University (1994).
• Her work was also included in the Ohio Craft Museum’s 1997 invitational exhibit STITCHERS AND BEADERS: AMERICA’S BEST.
• One embroidery is included in Aimone’s 2004 book, DESIGN! A LIVELY GUIDE TO DESIGN BASICS FOR ARTISTS & CRAFTSPEOPLE.
• From 1998 through 2010 Katherine mentored students across North America with her Correspondence Course “Personal Needlework Connections Through Drawing and Design”.
• Now she is able to devote more time to her own work, and teaching and mentoring students directly in classes and workshops. Please click here to go to Katherine’s Teaching & Mentoring page for more information.
As a life-long-learner, Katherine continues building and strengthening her teaching/mentoring and artistic media repertoire in divergent areas. Most recently: website design, facebook, and research and personal work on Celiac Disease (with miraculous results going gluten-free!). Come to Rivendell and share the creative adventures……