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Sep 6, 2020

Last time, I broke a long silence to let you know my life in art had been evolving from 2-D to 3-D – to social sculpture in fact, and to forms that are increasingly participatory. Not that painting isn’t interactive. But I began to want to us…

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Category: Social Sculpture   Tags: Ironic Participation, participatory art, art as connection
Aug 24, 2020

It’s been a while since I last posted. We are living through something big, and puzzling, and strange. So my life and art reached an unexpected but perfectly logical turning point. Please give me a minute to catch you up, and then tell me about you.…

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Category: Arts & Culture   Tags: placemaking
Jul 19, 2019

A year ago I moved to Chicago, precipitated by my husband's job change. We've moved a lot in our 21 years of marriage. Each one of them is difficult and abound with new learning opportunites, new growth, new observations, and the work one puts into creati…

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Category: Chicago   Tags:
Jan 31, 2018

“Art ? Math” explores art that is influenced by math and mathematics ideas to make these ideas more vivid. SEATTLE, WA (January 24, 2018) – Mathematics is the study of structure, number, pattern, and shape; though abstract, it has influenced art for cent…

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Category: Show   Tags: Show, Curatorial Proposal, Exhibit
Feb 15, 2017

Artist Statement I'm reworking my artist statement after a workshop I took. How does this work for you? Does it make my work clear? Kate Vrijmoet I am a figurative artist working primarily in paint, but also in social sculpture. I use the tools of cla…

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Feb 13, 2017

Given that it's the first quarter, I have tons of research to do. Here is my kitchen sink of links I need to follow up with. Websites and articles to visit/read Fiscal Sponsorship: http://grantspace.org/tools/knowledge-base/Individual-Grantseekers/Fisc…

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Category: Art Business   Tags:
Feb 10, 2017

The wrong approach I'm currently taking Sharon Louden's Creative Capital's webinar series about approaching the gatekeepers in the art world and LOVING it! On the topic of conversation during the third of four sessions I asked the question: What do you …

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Feb 8, 2017

Jen Graves, one of the last full-time paid art critics in the US resigned on February 8th.   Regardless of how you felt about her views, she has been extremely important to the health of this city and losing that well-informed critical voice is n…

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Category: Arts & Culture   Tags:
Feb 2, 2017

With the support of Issaquah Schools Foundation and ArtEAST we created this short film about The Incredible Intensity of Just Being Human

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Category: Show   Tags: The Incredible Intesnity, Art & social change
Feb 1, 2017

New Year, New Goals I've been sucked under by the divisive politics of our time, like nearly all of my colleagues in the arts, and so many not in the arts. I'm not sure how that's going to change my work yet, except that it's paralized me for a bit while…

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Category: Art Business   Tags: Inventory, The Incredible Intensity of Just Being Human, YoungArts, Creative Capital
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