Robots and Quilts, Life and Art...
bits and pieces put together to present a semblance of a whole.

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. The cyborg is our ontology; it gives us our politics.
Haraway, A Manifesto for Cyborgs,
Routledge, 1990

Central to any creative process, materials provide a common stage on which art and design can communicate, flaunt their unique attributes and at the same time express similarities. Materials contribute to an object's meaning and in many cases are integral to its structural, functional, and narrative identity.
Brochure, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, 2000


Works in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Guns Are Us, Funerary Piece One
Guns Are Us, Funerary Piece Two
Guns Are Us, Funerary Piece Three


Forthcoming exhibitions
• Fiberart International 2010, Society for Contemporary Craft and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, April – August, 2010
• Empathetic Robot, Health in the Arts Clinic, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, January 12 - April 9, 2010, Solo Show
•The Artist as Quiltmaker XIV, New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin, Ohio, May – July 2010
•Wounded in Action, E. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, March 2010
• Modern Material, Living Arts, Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 2010
• Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY, November – January 2010
• SAQA: Twelve Voices, Studio Art Quilt Associates and the Dennos Museum Center, now traveling to the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, September 10, 2009 - January 22, 2010
• Sum of the Parts, Honorable Mention, H & R Block ARTSCAPE, Kansas City, Missouri now traveling to the Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum, Logan, Kansas, December 2009 - February 2010

Recent exhibitions
• Ethereal Fauna, Tom Robinson Studio Gallery, Chicago, IL, October – November 2009
• Hubbard Street Art Walk Plus, The Studios on Hubbard, Chicago, IL, October 2009 - Click here for Announcement
• Fiber Focus 2009, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, September – October 2009 - Click for Exhibition Catalog
• Made By Hand, Crossroads Gallery, St. Charles, MO, September – October 2009
• Needles and Pins, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL, September – October 2009
• Modern Material, Untitled[ArtSpace], Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, July – August, 2009
• Pushing the Surface, Johnson Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, Ohio, May – August 2009
• Annual Members Show, Juried, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL August 2009
• Surface Matters, Honorable Mention, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO, May 2009
• Fiber Invitational, Iowa Artisans Gallery, Iowa City, IA, June – July, 2009
• Interactive, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, June – July, 2009
• Bearing Witness: Art as Social Action, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, May – June 2009
• Interactive, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, June – July, 2009

Presentation - Martyr's Bar, Pecha Kucha night, December 2, 2008, Chicago, Illinois. To see Kathy's presentation, click here to see, or download!

Other exhibitions
• After the Soup, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Solo Show, January - February, 2009, Click to view Exhibition Catalog
• Emergent Forms, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, Illinois, Solo Show, January - February, 2009
• Emergent Forms II, Kishwaukee College, Malta, Illinois, Solo Show, March - April, 2009
• SAQA: Twelve Voices, Studio Art Quilt Associates and the Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan, September 2008 – January 2009
• Caffeine III, Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, March – April 2009
• Materials: Hard & Soft, GDAC – Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas, February – March, 2009
• And You Think That's Funny, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, January – February 2009