Biography
Professor Katie Peck was born and raised in San Jose, CA, and now lives and works in Baltimore, MD, as an artist and educator. She received her MFA in the Mount Royal School of Art (Multidisciplinary MFA) at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her most recent work focuses on human impacts on the environment through the lens of sport fishing and rainbow trout globalization using humor, craft, and camp to investigate our interactions with non-human creatures. Professor Peck鈥檚 work has been exhibited in cities including Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Gatlinburg, TN, Wassaic, NY, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Jose, and San Diego.
Professor Peck鈥檚 soft sculptures and weaving practice work to process what it means to find the beauty in nature, even with signs of human impact. Drawing on collective memory through nostalgic material choices 鈥� such as carpet, woven cloths, and trash polluting natural spaces 鈥� Professor Peck gives a voice to the places that these materials are impacting. Not only is she sourcing subject matter from her own past and present to highlight human impact on our natural world, but her work also engages with local scientists and activists to gain objective information to define the limitations of her reality.
Education
- MFA, Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland Institute College of Art
- BFA, Chapman University
Courses Taught
- SA 224 - Two-Dimensional Design
- SA 366 - Sculpture
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