Kathryn Hunter

Kathryn Hunter grew up in North Alabama and then spent 10 years in the Montana mountains before moving to South Louisiana in 2000. She has a BFA (1999 Montana State University) and an MFA (2003 Louisiana State University), both in printmaking. In her fine art practice, she works in mixed media, from embroidery to letterpress and laser cut steel to paper cutting, with which she exhibits in galleries across the US. Her work incorporates animals as characters in the folktale tradition commenting on false prophets, the damage of white supremacy, America's freedom, and the erosion of our environment. Her work is represented by LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans. She is an artist member of Baton Rouge Gallery and the art collective, Luminous Lookout. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the LSU Museum of Art, Hilliard Art Museum, and Sam D Hamilton Noxubee Wildlife Refuge among others. Since 2003, she has operated Blackbird Letterpress, a small letterpress printshop where she and her team design, print, and assemble handmade notebooks, quirky animal-shaped greeting cards, and products featuring Inspiring Women in history. She has designed and illustrated 3 gift books for Clarkson Potter (Penguin Random House) and is currently working on two other books for the same imprint. In addition, her design work has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art,- in New York City, the Norton Simon Museum- in Los Angeles, and the Historic New Orleans Collection among others. Her work is featured in Keeper of the Tale Trilogy novels by Ronlyn Domingue (Atria Books 2014). In 2020, she organized and participated in the print portfolio titled: Inspiring Women: 25 Women Who Were True Catalysts of Change. Copies of the portfolio are now part of the permanent collections of The Library of Congress, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and Smith College Special Collections, among other institutions.