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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. This summer (2008), I will travel 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.
I currently live with my husband, Patrick, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. We love to travel, hike and cross-country ski. I have returned to painting recently, having a small studio in our house for oil painting.
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