Kate Dodd received her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1983 and her M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1990. She currently lives in New Jersey with a bicoastal presence in the Bay Area in Berkeley where she grew up. She has exhibited her artwork nationally in museums, galleries, and colleges, and has been teaching art in public and private schools for 30 years. Kate has been awarded residencies at MacDowell, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Papermaking, the Connemara Conservancy, Cummington Community for the Arts, the Vermont Studio School and numerous schools in the tri-state area. In addition to site-specific installations, Kate has large-scale works commissioned by NJ Transit in Bayonne, Newark, South Amboy, and Hoboken. Kate’s installations provide a heightened sensory experience for the viewer\occupant, while reexamining institutional and conventional notions of architecture and its relationship to the environment.