KATE AITCHISON
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Education

Rhode Island School of Design, Master of Fine Arts, Printmaking                              2016

The Colorado College, B.A. in Studio Art, cum laude,                                                  2010
Minor in Environmental Studies                                

University of New Mexico, Monotype Intensive                                                            2011
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Exhibitions

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
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2025 Fiber Under Pressure, Tennessee Tech University, Smithville, TN
2025 Ode to Our Constant Erosion, Glass Gallery, Bluff UT
2025 Imagined Almanac: a future for the Colorado Plateau, Ft. Lewis College, Durango, CO
2024 Current Collection, Glass Gallery, Bluff UT
2024 An Exquisite Extreme, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT
2024 Meta-Forays, Kresge Gallery, Lyon College, Batesville, AR
2022 Terra Chromatica, Coburn Gallery, Colorado College, Colorado Springs CO
2021 Changing Ecologies, Block Island Airport, Block Island, RI
2019 Rebecca Bryant Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC
2019 AS220 Reading Room, AS220 Gallery, Providence, RI
2018 Brown Arts Initiative, Granoff Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
2018 The Birth of a Boat, Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, Flagstaff, AZ
2018 Human: Nature, TF Green Airport, Providence, RI
2017 Boat Explorations, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2015 The Cartography of Nature, The Cultural Center: Eagle Hill, Hardwick, MA
2015 Dualities, Benson Hall Gallery, Providence, RI
2014 Uplift: Conservation on the Plateau, The Entrada Institute, Torrey, UT
2014 Ribbon of Life, Criollo Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ
2013 The Burnished Landscape, Firecreek Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ
2011 Post Graduate Monotype Exhibition, Packard Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2010 Graphic Anomalies, Packard Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Farewell 555 Museum Of Contemporary Art Flagstaff, Flagstaff, AZ
2025 Art of the Boat Fleming Gallery, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2024 Regional Artists Annual Group Show Museum Of Contemporary Art Flagstaff, Flagstaff, AZ
2022 Residency as Witness, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2021 RISD Faculty Exhibition, Providence, RI
2021 New Impressions, Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown RI
2021 Paper Organica, Homegrown Gallery, Providence, RI
2020 RISD Unbound Art Book Fair, Providence, RI
2019 Imagine Climate: Artists on Climate Change, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
2019 Powell 150th Anniversary Expedition, John Wesley Powell Museum, Green River, U
2017 Biotic, H Gallery, Ventura, CA
2017 Chiaroscuro, AS220 Resident Gallery, Providence, RI
2016 Flocked, Blocked, and Stenciled, Carpenter 186 Gallery, Providence, RI
2016 The Glare, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2016 New Contemporaries, Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum Providence, RI
2016 Sprung, Rabbithole Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Lasting Impressions, Studio 505, Providence, RI
2015 Printmaking International Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Art, Bejing, China
2015 Landscape Image, Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2015 Fever Dream, Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2015 Spring, Sol Koeffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2014 Printmaking Triennial, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2013 Sense of Place, White Hills Gallery, Camp Verde, AZ
2012 Bluff Arts Festival, Cow Canyon Trading Post, Bluff, UT
2011 Bluff Arts Festival, Cow Canyon Trading Post, Bluff, UT
2010 Eurimpressions, Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO

Collaborative Projects

Nature Conservancy Dugout Ranch Collaborative Artist in Residence Project (2025-present): collaborating with soil scientist and professor Brook Osborne to create and art/science exhibition about nitrogen fixing vegetation islands in semi-arid drylands of the four corners region.

The Paper Genome Project (2016-present): collaboration with artist Laura R Post about the medium of paper making and how it can connect varied interests across communities
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“Tropical Anatomies” Project (2015) Providence, RI: a Brown/RISD art and science collaboration with PHD candidates Robert Lamb and Brooke Osborne to explore the visualization of rainforest research 

“Uplift: Conservation on the Plateau” Entrada Institute, Torrey, UT (2014): Artist Residency/collaboration with conservationists Collin Haffey and Cari Kimball in an attempt to define place and the difference between how scientists and artists interpret site specific locations and their importance

“Ribbon of Life”, Flagstaff, AZ (2014):  Collaboration with non-profit “Friends of the Rio De Flag” to make work inspired by the Rio de Flag Watershed 
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“The Burnished Landscape”, Flagstaff, AZ (2013):  Collaboration with conservationist Collin Haffey making work inspired by the impact of climate change on wild fires surrounding Flagstaff, AZ

Grants, Awards, and Residencies

2025  Nature Conservancy Dugout Ranch Artist in Residence, Dugout Ranch, UT
2025  Elkhorn Ranch Artist in Residence, Tucson, AZ
2024  Elkhorn Ranch Artist in Residence, Tucson, AZ
2023  Elkhorn Ranch Artist in Residence, Tucson, AZ
2022  Elkhorn Ranch Artist in Residence, Tucson, AZ
2021  Elkhorn Ranch Artist in Residence, Tucson, AZ
2019  Elkhorn Ranch Artist in Residence, Tucson, AZ
2018   Brown Arts Initiative Fellowship, Providence, RI  -a grant for a mural about the affects of mega dams on major waterways around the world
2017   Southern Graphics Conference International Emerging Artist Fellowship 
2017   Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Project Grant  -a grant to explore native and non-native plant fibers in Rhode Island and to  offer workshops to the public to teach them about the art and ecology of paper making    
2017   Santa Fe Art Institute Water Rights Residency, Santa Fe, NM                       
2016   Graduate Studies Grant, Rhode Island School of Design: Paper Genome Project, Bluff, UT - Explored papermaking with non-native plant species along the San Juan River in the  Colorado River Watershed 
2015   RISD Maharam STEAM Fellow, Art and Science Fellowship, Flagstaff, AZ -worked with the USGS to learn about and create imagery for the food web of  the Colorado River Watershed through Grand Canyon National Park
2015   RISD Peter. St. Onge Memorial Travel Grant, Japanese Papermaking, Japan  -grant to travel to Japan and learn the technique of traditional Japanese hand papermaking
2014   Entrada Institute Artist Residency, Torrey, UT 
2011   Artist in Residence: The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO                  
2010   Ritt Kellogg Adventure Grant Recipient, Gates of the Arctic National Park, AK  -grant to backpack in Alaska through Gates of the Arctic National Park for 12 days in  order to explore fully our potential for adventure and how it translates in to our everyday reality
2010  Colorado College Venture Grant Recipient, Bookmaking, Colorado Springs, CO            
2010  Julia Armstrong Minard, Class of 2007, Endowed Scholarship, Colorado College            
2006-2010  Colorado College Scholar, Academic Scholarship                                  ​
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