KATHERINE FIELDS
Visiting Artist Instructor and Visual Resources Curator
East Central College
Missouri

email: fieldsk@adjunct.eastcentral.edu

Artist Statement
Teaching Philosophy
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Katherine Rhodes Fields was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1975. After attending Clinton High School in 1993, she enrolled in college at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. At Sewanee she studied drawing, painting, and sculpture under Pradip Malde, Edward Carlos, and Geof Bowie respectively and received her Bachelor of Arts - Cum Laude degree in 1997. In December of 1995, Katherine went to Glasgow Scotland where she studied Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art under the direction of Brian Kelley, Scottish mosaic artist and sculptor. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from The University of Mississippi in Oxford. She is currently a Visiting Artist Instructor and Visual Resources Curator at East Central College in Missouri.

As part of her course at the University, she taught Art 372, Introduction to Intaglio Processes and Art 390, Beginning Photography from 2003 until 2004. Katherine is also an active member of the Southern Graphics Council. She, along with three others, is archiving and creating a web museum of the SGC's print collection that Ole Miss holds for the international organization. In March of 2005 Katherine presented the archiving project at the SGC conference in Washington, D.C. due in part to an award from The University of Mississippi's Chancellor's Discretionary Fund. Katherine served as Art Editor for The Yalobusha Review, an annual journal of literary arts published by The University of Mississippi's English Department.

Among being a Roy Frank Finger Memorial Scholar, Katherine is a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and Kappa Phi International Art Fraternity, the College Art Association, as well as the 2004 Recipient of The University of Mississippi's Graduate Student Achievement Award. In 2003, The University of Mississippi chose Katherine as their nominee for both a Fulbright Grant to study the Maori culture in New Zealand and a Mitchell Scholarship to study book arts and illuminated manuscript writing in Ireland.