Dr. Kathy, a full-time multimedia artist, received a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in three-dimensional (3D) studio art from UTRGV (Texas) in May 2022. Kathy was a fellow at the Chautauqua School of Visual Arts (Chautauqua, NY), Azule (Hot Springs, NC), Art Farm (Marquette, NE), Elsewhere Studios (Paonia, CO), Joya Art+Ecology AiR (Andalucia, Spain), Homestead U.S. National Historical Park (Beatrice, NE), & Mauser EcoHouse Artist Residency (Parrita). She has exhibited in several national/international juried and non-juried shows and has initiated several socially engaged art experiences with children and adults. She had pop-up installations and socially engaged art at the Children's Museum of Brownsville (TX) in 2021 and the International Museum of Art and Science (IMAS, McAllen, TX) in 2022. Her solo shows include her MFA exhibition at UTRGV (March 2022), the Art Hub (May 2022), and the Brownsville Performing Arts Academy (June 2022). In 2022-2023 she won one of two awards at La Chicharra Studio juried show (Brownsville, TX), fifth place in a juried show at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Middletown, DE), and audience choice award at UTRGV’s Rusteberg Galllery (Brownsville, TX). She published a photo of her ceramic piece and an accompanying poem, and an article about her practice in national, peer-reviewed journals; she published two art reviews and an interview in GlassTire, a Texas art magazine. Dr. Kathy holds a Ph.D. in Language Education from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is Professor Emerita from the University of Texas System, an Endowed Chair of Community Engagement, and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Honduras). Her May 2023 accomplishment involved walking over 200 miles in nature on el Camino Portugués (from Porto) and receiving a Compostela certificate in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.