Katharine Lark DeLamater (b. 1993) is an artist and professional collaborator whose interdisciplinary practice includes hand papermaking, book arts, sculpture, and textiles.

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Katharine graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2015 with a degree in Studio Art (magna cum laude) and a minor in Philosophy. She received her MFA (high honor) from the University of Iowa Center for the Book in 2020. An Iowa Arts fellowship recipient, Katharine worked as a research assistant to Timothy Barrett at the Oakdale Paper Research Facility from 2018-2020. Shortly thereafter, Katharine was the 2020-2021 West Bay View Fellow at Dieu Donné Papermill. Katharine now works as Artistic Projects Manager and Studio Collaborator at Dieu Donné.

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Katharine has taught at The University of Iowa Center for the Book (IA), Dieu Donné Papermill (NY), The Morgan Conservatory (OH), Women’s Studio Workshop (NY), and Polka! Press (WI). Outside of the studio, she has scholarly interests in collaborative art practices and pedagogy in the book arts. Her essays have been published in Hand Papermaking Magazine (Summer 2019), Papermaker's Tears Volume 2: Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper (The Legacy Press), and Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines Objects of Study (Routledge).

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Her handmade paper works have been featured in portfolios including Hand Papermaking’s Intergenerationality and Art and Literature Laboratory’s CSArt (2017). Her artists books are held in the special collections of Kenyon College, The Bainbridge Museum of Art, as well as private collections.