Mural & Poster Commissions

Murals and posters can be fantastic ways to spread strong messaging and transform spaces so they reflect the strength of community stories. I work with organizations, schools and campaigns to facilitates an idea generation process that ensures the art is rich with specificity, power and the spirit of each group. I work closely with anyone who is featured in the art so their portrait accurately expresses their vision and intention.

Creative Strategy & Cultural Organizing

Our movements demand a huge array os strategic tools. Using art to build power strengthens relationships, activates our imagination and generates the kind of life giving joy that is essential to prevent burn out. My experience includes art builds for marches and direct action, massive campaign strategy to cover billboards in art featuring organizers in abolitionist garments they designed, public art that includes augmented reality animations, and art projects that transform objects like snacks into sites of inspiration and base building. I can teach short workshops, plan & produce complex art-builds in collaboration with artists and organizers or work with your team to execute longer term strategic plans that require high level project management.

Check out this project with Performing Statistics,

Rise for Youth & Code VA :

A World Without Youth Prisons

Arts Integration Curriculum & Workshops

Every subject is more relevant and engaging when students see themselves in the story. Art is a perfect way to center personal narratives and recognize how to use art to claim power. Curriculum development can vary from 1-off classroom projects to significant intensives like murals and street installations. Kate has experience teaching k-12 & loves collaborating with art educators to dream up ways to expand the possibilities of their curriculum.

Speaking

Part of my creative process has been the work of excavating and investigating the ways in which colonization and whiteness inform my vision and can destroy creativity. This is abolition, anti-racism and important community building amongst white people committed to ending the delusion of white supremacy. I speaks regularly about this process and am committed to working with white people to address white socialization and how to grow toward collective liberation and solidarity by walking toward the truth of the legacy white people carry.

Portraits for Counter Narrative

Changing narratives requires producing imagery that illustrates what we know is true and are working to actualize more broadly. Portraits that clearly articulate the values of our movements and who we identify as leaders and visionaries in opposition to the systems forced upon us are part of our rise and resistance. I cherish the opportunity to work with people to create portraits!

Community Workshops

I love inventing ways for people who aren’t super confident making art, to be able to create with confidence and want to bring home what they made. I can create experiences for large scale events with hundreds of people, small community led engagements exploring a specific issue and even 1-off workshops tailored to spaces like psychiatric hospitals and prisons. The art may be posters, murals, screen printing t-shirts & totes, woodcuts, stencils, collages, giant colorings sessions and more. Generally themes center community storytelling, mental health and abolition.