Katherine Howard Rogers

Katherine Howard Rogers is GlogauAIR resident from January, 2025 to March, 2025

Katherine’s work reflects their belief in water’s constant motion and its connection to memory. She begins by applying fluid paint layers with their body and brushes to capture the sensation of water. Then, using tools like a power sander or palette knife, they remove layers to uncover hidden structures of gesture and color. This process of building and erasing creates an oscillating relationship between memory, belief, and image-making.

Meet the Artist

Statement

My relationship with water is based on belief, as water is in constant motion, water lives in my memory. My work is about the experience of how memory and willed belief, find relationship through building an image. After taking photographs the painting begins on the floor. First, thinned, fluid layers, are applied with my full body and brushes, recall embodied sensations of the water. Second, using a power sander, scrapper or palette knife the paint is worn away, revealing a hidden structure-history of gesture and colour. The two phases oscillate.

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GlogauAIR Project

I have been relying on painting to make real my belief in my experiences of water. I want to explore the role photography plays in this process and to try video as well as other mixed media. To see if there are ways that the process might shift so that the end result is not always a painting. Additionally, to explore if digital media might enable a shared experience of belief. Making the work more accessible. To see if a memory once shared is altered. And does this alter the experience of belief? Can digital media be as real as painting, for me?

CV Summary

EDUCATION

1985 Pratt Institute Brooklyn New York: B.F.A
1987 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York: Teacher Certification program.
1994 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York: M.F.A.
1999-2002 University of Illinois at Chicago: 18 credits in Master of Art History program.
2014 Waldorf Teacher Certification, Steiner College, Sacramento, CA.

Residencies

Ox Bow Longform, Saugatuck, IL. 2024
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT 2002

Exhibits

Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL. 2020
C.G. Jung Institute, Evanston, IL. 2006

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Chicago Waldorf School, Chicago, IL. 2012-present
- High School Arts teacher and student advisor
- Course Listing: Art History, Studio Art Painting and Drawing
Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, Illinois
- Assistant Professor Studio Arts and Art History, 2002-2004
- Course Listing: Studio Art Painting and Drawing
- Independent Study (11 students)
- Department Representative for Animation and Cultural Student Clubs
Adjunct Faculty, 1999-2002
- Course listing: 3-D design, Art History, Studio Art Painting and Drawing
Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, New York
- Head of Lower School Arts 1986 – 1996
- Interviewed and mentored new faculty
- Created inter-disciplinary arts curriculum with class teachers, grades K-4
- Produced and hung stage settings for Winter Festival
- Designed May Festival costumes, grades K-4 (over 350 costumes)
- Administered purchasing of all art supplies for K-4 visual arts program
- Presided over three major student art exhibits per year
- Created inter-disciplinary arts curriculum with Museum of Modern Art
- Taught studio art to grades K-8
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 1990-1995
- Teacher training supervisor
- Trained student teachers and evaluated performance
- Presented seminars on classroom management
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 1992-1994 – Adjunct Professor
P.S. 1 Alternative Museum, Queens, New York, 1986-1987 – Art Teacher and Multicultural Art Program Administrator grades 5-8