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About CatieA tenured instructor, I have been teaching full-time at De Anza College since 1999. Art has been a part of my life since childhood. My father worked as a commercial illustrator, photographer and art director, both my brothers pursued artistic careers, and our family life always revolved around exploring the visual arts.
I received my undergraduate education at State University of New York at Binghamton, graduating with honors in art history with a minor emphasis in studio art. After college, I worked for several years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, developing an interest in non-Western arts. Moving to the Northwest, I earned a Master of Arts degree from University of Washington, receiving support through a recruitment scholarship. My thesis addressed Lakota art and my focus of study was Native American art history, though I also pursued courses in African as well as American and European art history. I then earned a doctorate degree in History in Art from University of Victoria, British Columbia, where I received a three-year fellowship supporting my education in Canada. My doctoral dissertation addressed Native American basket weavers of Northwestern California.
After leaving Canada, I lived in Arcata, California, conducting research and teaching part-time at Humboldt State University for two years. In 1996, I began teaching as assistant professor of art history at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. After working in Ashland for three years, I accepted a tenure-track job at De Anza College. Since working at De Anza, I have developed several new courses, building the non-Western art history program. In 2002, I was a participant in an NEH-funded summer institute, Maya World, which included travel to Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico with leading scholars in Pre-Columbian art and Mayan studies. In fall 2007, I entered the Arctic Circle, visiting several artists from Inupiaq communities. In the summer of 2008, I traveled to Peru in order to study indigenous arts and archaeological sites as a participant in an NEH-funded summer institute, Andean Worlds, New Directions in Scholarship and Teaching. This summer (2009), I traveled to Senegal and Mali, West Africa, as a participant in a Fulbright-Hays summer program, studying West African arts and cultures with an emphasis on textiles and contemporary arts.
My recent research includes art and environmental issues in Northwestern California, patronage relationships between Native American weavers in Butte County and white collectors in the early 20th century, and documentation of Andean weaving styles and current revivals of these styles in the Sacred Valley near Cusco. In 2009, I published a textbook, Cultural Diversity in American Art History: An Introduction to Intercultural Studies Through Visual Arts.
I live with my husband, Patrick, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. We love to travel, hike and cross-country ski with our "aussie-cattle-mix" dog, Phoebe. I enjoy oil painting in a small studio in our house and relax many of my days in the woods.
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