Kat is a writer and curator focusing on the intersection of contemporary art and motherhood. She lives in Portland, Maine, where she runs an art gallery and serves on her city’s Public Art Committee. Her writing often blends the personal and the art historical to arrive at new understandings of identity, motherhood, and daughterhood.
Selected work
Horizons
Wild Roof Journal, 2026
I/We
effy: a literary magazine, 2026
A Matrilineage of Wolves
JustBirth Space, 2026
On Deterritorialized Relationality
University of Southern Maine, 2026
At the Portland Museum of Art, Jeremy Frey's Baskets Conjure the Past While Presenting a Warning for the Future
Boston Art Review, 2025
Janna Ahrndt Does Not Dream of Labor
University of Southern Maine, 2025
20 Walks: Lin Lisberger
University of Southern Maine, 2025
Life Forms: An Exhibition Essay
University of Southern Maine, 2025
under/current curatorial essay
University of Southern Maine, 2024
shadow / echo / memory
University of Southern Maine, 2023
Embodying Softness/Excavating Delight
University of Southern Maine, 2023
INTERSECTIONS OF CARE AND ALTERBIOPOLITICS AS MANIFESTED THROUGH THE MASK
A Trace of Fashioned Violence, 2020
Karolina Gnatowski. Some Kind of Duty. DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois, January 17 – March 31, 2019
TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture, 2020
It Will Arise from the Ashes, or Exploring the Aesthetics of Postmodern Ruin Photography in Detroit
Kritikos, 2016