Kate Hamilton

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SOLO EXHIBITS

2015                           Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY

2014                           Tunxis Community College, Farmington, CT

                                   Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY

2013                           Hillman-Jackson Gallery at Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, MA

2012                           Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, MA

                                   Roberts Gallery, West Kortright Centre, East Meredith, NY

2011                           Unison Market Street Gallery, New Paltz, NY

 

GROUP EXHIBITS

2016                           Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY

                                   Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY

                                   Ulster County Community College Muriel Kotler Gallery, Stone Ridge, NY

                                   Green County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY

                                   Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ

                                   Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY

2015                           Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY      

                                   Greene County Art Center, Catskill, NY

                                   Westbeth Gallery, NYC, NY

                                   Heritage Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

                                   Roxbury Arts Center, Roxbury, NY

                                   KMOCA, Kingston, NY

                                   Greene County Art Center, Catskill, NY

2014                           Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY

                                   KMOCA, Kingston, NY

                                   Roxbury Arts Center, Roxbury, NY

                                   Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

                                   Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ.

2013                           Islip Art Museum.  East Islip, NY.

                                   KMOCA, Kingston, NY.

2012                           Brik Gallery, Catskill NY. Curator Richie Timperio

                                   KMOCA, Kingston, NY.

2011                           Concordia College, Morehead, MN

2010                           Unison Gallery New Paltz, NY.

2009                           George Segal Gallery, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ.

2007                           BAG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

2006                           Roberts Gallery, West Kortright Center, East Meredith, NY.

                                   Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY.

 

PROJECTS/FESTIVALS/INSTALLATIONS

2018 (upcoming)         The Seven Deadly Sins  (Weill/Brecht) Collaboration with Valerie Arias and Claudia Blersch.  Refugee oriented, interruptive multi-media production. Rigiblick Theater, Zurich.

                                    Elana Greenfield, playwright. On-going prop/costume/plot collaboration.

2015                            The Other’s Other O+Festival Kingston, NY.  Collaboration with Tona Wilson.

2014                            It’s a Big World in There (Second installation) Micro-Festival of Unfinished Puppetry, Trois Rivieres, Quebec.

                                    It’s a Big World in There, C H R C H Project Space, Cottekill, NY.  Interactive performance of residency project with invited artist collaborators Tona Wilson, videographer, and Jonathan Elliott, composer.

2013                            La Voix Humaine  Collaboration with Valerie Arias on one-woman telephonic opera (written by Poulenc to a Cocteau monologue).  Creation of collapsible room-sized shirt set, and costumes.  Director Claudia Blersch.  Rigiblick Theater, Zurich.

                                    Dada Spill, Widow Jane Mine, Rosendale, NY.  Collaboration with Marian

                                    Schoettle with guest artists.  An event to shine light on the absurd but real transformation of abandoned mines into high security document storage and luxury housing. Event included Wrench (Act 1 and 2).

                                    Wrench (Act 1) (See description above)

                                    ArtsEmerson, Boston, MA.  Sleeping Weazel Productions.

2012                            COTA store window installation. New Paltz, NY.

                                    Masters on Main, Store window installation. Catskill, NY.    

2011                            COTA store window installation. New Paltz, NY.

                                    Wrench (Act 1) First installment (see description above). Sleeping Weasel Productions, Factory Theater, Boston, Mass, 2012.

2010                            COTA store window installation. New Paltz, NY.

                                    BACA store window installation. Beacon, NY.

2006                            Inside/Out. Chashama, NYC. Designed costumes for store window project performed by Laura Barnett and Sandra Spannon.  Wired, gravity defying, transparent 19th century aprons with feathered angel wings.

2005                            Inside/Out, Gallery Tristesse, Berlin. (See above)

 

 

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2014                            Womens Studio Workshop with C H R C H Project Space.  One month work period resulting ‘It’s a Big World in There’.

2012                            Womens Studio Workshop:  Joint residency with Marian Schoettle to create original paper costumes for mine performance summer 2013.

                                    NYFA Mark ’12 artist.

 

PRESS (partial)

2016                            Radio WGXC interview with George Spencer https://wavefarm.org/wgxc/schedule/9dpk6phttps://wavefarm.org/wgxc/schedule/9dpk6p

2015                            ArtScene Video interview on WebTV, published by Chronogram Magazine. Http://www.chronogram.com/hudsonvalley/artscene-web-tv-episode-3-title/Content?oid=2295778

July 20, 2012               Delaware County Times, Cheryl Petersen.

Aug 4, 2011                 New Paltz Times Almanac, Ephemeral Artwear.

 

COSTUME DESIGN

2012                            Alte Liebe Neue   Music Dir Giancarlo Prossimo, Singer Valerie Arias, Zurich.

2011                            Close   Choreographer Debra Wanner, Chen Dance Theater and La Mama, NYC.

2010                            Sinnlich Verstrickt  Collaboration with Valerie Arias (music direction) and Sarah Stead (choreography).  

                                    Bluebird Productions, Theater Stok, Zurich.

2009                            2Parts Whole Choreographer Debra Wanner, West End Theater, NYC.

2009                            Vier Frauen: Quilt   Bluebird Productions, Theater Stok, Zurich.

2007                            Skin Deep   Playwright Tina Howe, Director Laura Barnett. Summer Shorts, Theaters 59, Festival of NewAmerican Short Plays.

2002                            Dora   Dir. Nancy Fales Garrett, La Mama Theater,  NYC.

1996-09                       Macbeth, Waiting for Godot, True West              

                                    Dir. James Glossman, Luna Theater, Montclair, NJ.

1997                            Dora   Dir. Diane Schenker, American Chamber Opera Company, NYC.

 

DESIGN

ETAK - Established company and label, NYC.  Owner and designer of company that manufactured  creative hats and clothes for children.  National and international distribution. Produced 20 successful seasons (1983-1997). Editorial coverage in newspapers and magazines including NY Times, NY Magazine, Child, Family Circle and Earnshaws. Partial list of store clients includes Bloomingdales, Harrods, Nordstroms, Fred Segal, Shoofly, Space Kiddets and Dinosaur Hill.

 

TEACHING

Saint Ann's School               Costume Teacher/Designer   Brooklyn, NY; 1996-Present

Parsons School of Design    Professor of 3D Design in Foundation Division   NYC; 2007-2009

West Kortright Centre         Costume Teacher/Designer   E. Meredith, NY; 1996-200

 

EDUCATION

Brown University, Providence, RI                          BA (1979)

Additional Study in millinery, draping, patternmaking, puppetry:

Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI)

Parsons School of Design (NY, NY)

Fashion Institute of Technology (NY, NY)