BIO
Katerie Gladdys is a transdisciplinary artist who thinks about place, marginalized landscapes, sustainability, mapping, consumption, food, agriculture, and disability. She creates installations, interactive, sculpture, video, and relational performances. Her creative work has been exhibited in national and international juried venues, including in the UK, Canada, Germany, Spain, and Croatia. She is currently an associate professor in Art and Technology in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida. In 2009, she received the College of the Arts award for mentoring graduate students. Gladdys also participated in a USIA teacher exchange at Kinnaird College in Lahore, Pakistan in 2000. Recent partners in collaboration include Forage Farm, a community resource center for educating people about sustainability and local food, University of Florida School of Forest Resource and Conservation, University of Florida Office of Sustainability and Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences’ Center for Public Issues and Education and the Gainesville community. Gladdys has also received an artist fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council. Prior to joining the faculty at University of Florida, Gladdys was the multimedia education coordinator at University of Illinois at Springfield teaching workshops digital imaging, video and web design. Gladdys taught English in Japan. She served as an educator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art traveling to rural counties with the Artmobile teaching K-12 workshops as well as creating exhibition programming targeting underserved communities. She received her MFA in New Media from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BA in Art and Design from the University of Chicago. She also has an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages with a specialization in pragmatics and discourse from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.