KATE KRETZ

Kate Kretz
featured in distinguished artist series 

Locally based artist, Kate Kretz, was recently featured in the James Renwick Alliance for Craft's Distinguished Artist Series hosted in partnership with the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. One audience member noted, "Kate Kretz is an extremely skilled and articulate artist. Her reference to her upbring and the moral imperative that influences her highly refined art demonstrates such a powerful conviction." 
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About kate kretz

​Kate Kretz intends her mixed media work to be "beautiful, exquisitely-crafted gut punch." She takes an unblinking look at difficult topics, and renders her response with stitchery, painting, or woodburning. Whichever medium will have the most potency. With each stitch or mark, she increases the power of her "incantation" to counteract the negative and to create a thoughtful, healing object. Kretz has used human hair to embroider unsettling pieces which examine motherhood, sexuality, and aging. Her recent pieces using deconstructed Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats caused her work to be banned from Facebook and Instagram, an ironic outcome to her artistic fight against hate speech. Kretz's unsparing examination of important subjects is a deeply aesthetic and intellectual experience.

​She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and earned her MFA from the University of Georgia.  She has participated in numerous group and solo shows, and has received wide media attention for her unusual and powerful body of work.
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