Katelyn Patton is a visual artist working in Chicago who was born and raised in the Midwest.
Her practice focuses on the urban ecology and biodiversity of plants in the city and beyond, the ways that material and color can be naturally derived from them, and how this localized knowledge can be used as a vessel for connecting multiple overlapping histories, stories, and meanings.
She has been the Maker-In-Residence at the Harold Washington Library, received a DCASE award in 2020, and has had solo shows at Extra Projects, the Lillstreet Arts Center and the NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery. She holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she helped establish the Art Garden at UIC, a space for cross-disciplinary explorations with plants and alternative materials.
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If you are intersted in a collaboration, commission or workshop please reach out at katelynpatton@gmail.com
Her practice focuses on the urban ecology and biodiversity of plants in the city and beyond, the ways that material and color can be naturally derived from them, and how this localized knowledge can be used as a vessel for connecting multiple overlapping histories, stories, and meanings.
She has been the Maker-In-Residence at the Harold Washington Library, received a DCASE award in 2020, and has had solo shows at Extra Projects, the Lillstreet Arts Center and the NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery. She holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she helped establish the Art Garden at UIC, a space for cross-disciplinary explorations with plants and alternative materials.
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If you are intersted in a collaboration, commission or workshop please reach out at katelynpatton@gmail.com