Kate Kretz

Kate Kretz earned a Cours De La Civilisation Francaise certificate at The Sorbonne, and a BFA at SUNY Binghamton, garnering the SUNY Foundation Award for Excellence in the Fine Arts, Harpur College Departmental Honors in Art, and Harpur College Academic Honors. She earned her MFA from the University of Georgia while awarded a departmental assistantship as well as university-wide assistantship. Exhibitions include the Museum of Arts & Design in New York, Van Gijn Museum in The Netherlands, Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Berlin, Wignall Museum, Katonah Museum, Frost Museum, Fort Collins MOCA, San Jose Museum of Textiles, Racine Museum of Art, Telfair Museum, Fort Lauderdale Museum, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the Museo Medici in Italy. She has received three MD Arts Council grants (in both Crafts and Painting categories), the NC Arts Council Grant, The South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, Florida Visual Arts Fellowship, and a Millay Colony Residency. She recently received the SECAC award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, and is on the Fulbright Specialist Roster until 2021. She has been invited to be part of the James Renwick Alliance’s  2019-2020 Distinguished Artist Series. After working as an Associate Professor and BFA Director at Florida International University for ten years, she relocated to the Washington, DC, area. Kretz currently works in her studio while teaching part-time, giving workshops and lectures at various universities. Her work is at www.katekretz.com.