Essays and Scholarly Writing
Kate’s writing explores the intersections of art education, place-based learning, embodied experience, ecology, and transformation.
Her essays move between scholarship and reflection, asking how creative practice can help us reconnect with land, body, memory, and community.
These writings extend the same questions found in her visual work: how do we repair, remember, and reimagine our relationships with the living world?
Essay
An exploration of how collaborative online art-making can foster connection, healing, and shared creative experience through art-care practices and spontaneous creation.
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An exploration of how moments of disruption, uncertainty, and creative disorientation can open new possibilities for learning, thinking, and relationality within art education.
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Reflection
This visual essay explores how ritualized, process-oriented art-making without predetermined outcomes can help art educators release expectation, resituate the self, and open space for emergent understanding.
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A chapter that documents a collaborative, evolving exhibition of arts-based doctoral research that explored how shared making, dialogue, and embodied gallery practice can deepen connection, reshape research perspectives, and expand possibilities for academic art education.
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An exploration of how speculative thought and personal narrative can deepen response-ability and relational-care in art education, centering disability studies and the power of co-learning across difference.
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This creative essay explores how embodied, relational art-making practices with Dr. Wurtzel and her children illuminate the concepts of becoming and emergence, revealing how creative understanding unfolds through disruption, connection, and material engagement.
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