BORN:   1970 Chicago, USA



  EDUCATION    

MFA 1999Writing (Image/Text): The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BA 1991English-Rhetoric, Minor Visual Art: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign




  EXHIBITIONS    

2010Group Show, Art Chicago International Art Fair, Roy Boyd Gallery booth, Chicago
2009Night Telegram/Water Speak Solo Installation, MOSNART/TRANSOM, Chicago
2009FOCUS 4: Four Solo Exhibitions by Illinois Artists, llinois State Museum, Chicago Gallery
2007-PresentVarious Group Shows, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago
2009Solo Show, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago (in conjunction with "Our Lady of the Underpass")
2009Group Show, Art Chicago International Art Fair, Roy Boyd Gallery booth, Chicago
2008-09"Seven Decades of Collecting", University of Southern California's Fisher Museum of Art
2008Group Show, Art Chicago International Art Fair, Roy Boyd Gallery booth, Chicago
2007-08Two-Artist Show, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago
2006Open Studio, Chicago Artists' Month




  READINGS    

2009Night Telegram/Water Speak Opening, MOSNART/TRANSOM, Chicago
2009FOCUS 4 Exhibition, Illinois State Museum, Chicago Gallery
2008USC Fisher Museum of Art
2008New School University (Poetry Society of America), New York
2008Purchase College, New York




  PUBLICATIONS    

2008Dream of Water chapbook, Poetry Society of America
2007Cover art, >Outer Bands by Gabe Gomez
2006Letter to the Editor, New York Times Sunday Magazine
2005Personal Essay, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered
"Our Lady of the New Millennium" poem, Puerto del Sol
2004"Day Count" poem, Free Verse, North Carolina State University
2003"Oaxaca Moon" poem, Alba
2001"Sky/Map: An Earthwork Diary", self-published with grant
1998 - 2001Introductory Essays, Journal of Ordinary Thought
1999"Universe" image/poem work, Collected
1998Artist of the Month Essay, F News Magazine
1990 - 1991Arts Review and Criticism, the Daily Illini




  PRESS    

2009"Illinois State Museum - Chicago Gallery - Focus 4", Kathryn Born, Art Talk Chicago
2009"RECOMMENDED: Kate Ingold/Illinois State Museum", Michael Weinstein, Newcity




  HONORS    

2009Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Finalist Award
2007National Chapbook Fellow, Harryette Mullen Judge, Poetry Society of America
2002CAAP Grant Review Panelist, Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs
2001Individual Grant Recipient, Multi-Arts, Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs
2000CityArts Grant Review Panelist, Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs
1997Women’s Champion, Costa Rica International Kyokushin Karate Open
1988Short Story Award, University of California, Santa Barbara




  COLLECTIONS    

University of Southern California Fisher Museum of Art
Illinois State Museum
Various Private Collections




  TEACHING EXPERIENCE    

2009Guest Lecture, R. Golden's Cultural Anthropology Class
Tulane University
2008Image/Text Poetry Seminar and Workshop
Newberry Library, Chicago
2008Image/Text Seminar and Workshop
Purchase College, New York
2005-07Writing Workshop Leader, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, Chicago
2005Visiting Professor, Gallery 37, Chicago
2004Full-Time English Instructor, University of New Orleans
2003 - 2004Delgado Community College, New Orleans
1998 - 2002Neighborhood Writing Alliance, Chicago






























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