Katharine is a hand papermaker and writer based in Brooklyn.
She received her MFA from the University of Iowa Center for the Book in 2020 and shortly thereafter was the 2020-2021 West Bay View Fellow at Dieu Donné Papermill. Alongside teaching and artist collaborations, Katharine maintains her own artistic practice which includes papermaking, letterpress printing, and experimental bookbinding. Previously, Katharine worked as Art Director at Carriage House Paper. She is currently Studio Collaborator at Dieu Donné Papermill.
An Iowa Arts fellowship recipient, Katharine worked as a research assistant to Timothy Barrett at the Oakdale Paper Research Facility from 2018-2020. After first learning about hand paper making at Mount Holyoke College, she went on to intern at Pace Paper, Dieu Donné, and the Boston Paper Collective.
Image: Katharine in the studio at Dieu Donné Papermill, April 2023. Photograph by Eliana Blechman.
Katharine has taught classes at The University of Iowa Center for the Book, Dieu Donné Papermill, The Morgan Conservatory, and Polka! Press. 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.
Outside of the studio, she has scholarly interests in collaborative art practices and pedagogy in the book arts. Her writing on authorship and collaboration was published in the summer 2019 edition of Hand Papermaking Magazine. Katharine was an inaugural reader for “Diptych: A Book Artists’ & Writers’ Reading Series,” hosted by the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and the Center for the Book in November 2019.
Image: Katharine in the studio at Dieu Donné Papermill, September 2022. Photograph by Eliana Blechman.
