Class of: 1980

Katharine Dean

Katharine Dean (CAS’79, MET’80) of Greenfield, N.H., earned an MFA in studio art in May 2016 from Johnson State College and Vermont Studio Center. She has worked with fibers and textiles for more than 50 years, making stitched and woven pieces in fibers, paper, and other materials, and showing her work in group and solo shows in New Hampshire and Vermont. Her thesis exhibit—an installation of more than 600 embroidered squares called Meditations on the Gestures of Wind on the Water—was held in the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery in Johnson, Vermont, in October 2015. Trained as a health coach, she is developing a program to use stitching to lessen stress, anxiety, and depression.

From the Winter-Spring 2017 issue.