Kat Howard

This month, CreativeMornings Hudson Valley joins chapters around the globe to explore the theme CREATE.

A word that sounds simple, until you really sit with it.

To create is to shape something from what we carry. Memory. Joy. Pain. Survival. Hope. The tangled and complicated materials of a life fully lived.

For sculptor and installation artist Kat Howard, creation is deeply physical. She pulls raw fiber apart and pieces found objects back together. Her hands shape heavy, tactile materials to explore how our bodies carry, hide, and survive hard truths. After stepping away from a career at the Whitney Museum to pursue independent art, she rooted her studio practice right here in the Hudson Valley. Now, she spends her days crafting large-scale sculptures and mentoring young artists at the Forsyth Satellite Academy.

On May 29, Kat will challenge us to look at the raw matter of our lives and ask: How do we actually build art from what we are given?

Meet Kat

Kat Howard holds a BA in Creative Writing and Art History from Brandeis University (2006), as well as two MFAs from Mills College in Studio Art and Creative Writing (2013). Upon completing her BA, Howard worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art as their first Manager of Interactive Media. In 2010, she exited the museum sphere to work as an independent artist. Working largely in fiber and found material, her sculptures interrogate the complicated, embodied process of healing from trauma, examining the burden and pressure to conceal or bear the truth. Howard’s work has been exhibited at Espasso, (2026), CARVALHO, New York (2026), Lawton Mull (2025), BCMT Gallery (2024), Dorsky Museum of Art (2023), Dunedin Fine Art Center (2023), Palo Gallery (2023), Marist College (2022), Union College (2022), Tanja Grunert Gallery (2022), and Bunker Artspace (2021), and was recently awarded the Open Studio Residency at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft.