Jamie Platt is a painter living and working in the tri-state region connecting Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Platt grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan where she earned a BFA in painting from Kendall College of Art & Design. She earned an MFA in painting from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Upon graduation, Platt taught courses in studio art at the Herron School of Art & Design, Indiana University Purdue University (IUPUI) in Indianapolis before moving to Washington DC. After nearly a decade in the Washington DC metropolitan area, Platt moved with her husband and three cats to southern Ohio so she could take a job as Gallery Director for Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. http://www.jamieplatt.net
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 Resources 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 the University of Florida, Gladdys was the multimedia education
coordinator at the University of Illinois at Springfield teaching workshops on 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. Her artwork and writings can be found at http://layoftheland.net
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