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Katherine Desjardins earned an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy, where she worked with mentors associated with Italian Radical Design. Her project-based practice expands beyond traditional painting to include installations, drawing, video, and performance. Desjardins' work often expresses themes of culture shock, political indignation, cognitive dissonance, and humor through a collage sensibility that privileges abrupt cuts, layering, and the collision of raw and refined materials. In 2013, she founded 'Re/visible Cities,' a parallel art practice that engages experiential pedagogy and collaborates on projects intended to spark dialogue about climate change, immigration, and gang violence. Her artistic contributions have been recognized internationally, and she has received awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Italian Ministry of Culture. Currently, she divides her time between Chicago and Florence, where she is converting a factory into an international arts incubator dedicated to developing new models of cross-disciplinary experiential learning in the Humanities.
University of Chicago • Chicago, IL
Teaches courses in the Department of Visual Arts, focusing on project-based practice in various mediums.
Department of Philosophy