From the always spectacular District of Columbia
I’m a self-employed, freelance graphic designer and production artist. At least I was one...
...for over three decades! But the busy-ness of my business took a downturn in recent years, due to several factors.
These days, I'm focusing more on my own art, or my own design-as-art and lifestyle-as-art, as somewhat explained in this website.
You should be able to reach me by e-mail at kathleencole@me.com.
My professional graphic design portfolio is located on Adobe’s Bēhance platform.
It’s not a lie to say my art is in the Smithsonian!
Or at least that it’s available to buy, exclusively through the experience of using an Art-o-mat® machine! Go find it, on the 3rd floor of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in the Gallery Place / Chinatown neighborhood of NW. While they last, the machine might feature:
• Snap! Pop! Art!
• Butterfly Effect
• Tangle Sculpture
• EyeCloud.
Visit artomat.org for a complete description of Clark Whittington’s amazing longterm conceptual art project.
My first public art project at 12th & C Street, SW...
...across from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and close to the Potomac & Anacostia Rivers.
The box was designed for SWBID, and features illustrations of some of SW’s “neighbors” living in and around the rivers — crabs, heron, ducks, and striped bass (Rockfish).
The Traffic Control Box Beautification project is part of DDOT’s Arts in the Right-of-Way (AROW) program.
I created a collection of fun & functional art-products, foremost for myself...
...but also because I hope other people will appreciate them, and want to buy them. The collection was conceived during the Covid-19 pandemic and realized thanks to my DIY-punk ideology and print-on-demand technology.
Some of my art-products were selected to be part of the 2024 Regional Juried Exhibition of the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital on Pennsylvania Avenue in Southeast.
Coming this summer!
In aging-punk camaraderie with the 40th anniversary of DC’s Revolution Summer, my long-planned silent art auction is finally scheduled to happen, thanks to help from Jason Hamacher and DC’s most rockin’ gallery — Lost Origins.
In the meantime, check out the 30-or-so available artworks up for auction because... the widow needs the damn money!
Where ya’ll from? Northwest Northwest!
Since September of 1989, my home/apartment has been located near 16th & U Street, NW — just one block south of Meridian Hill / Malcolm X Park and 12 blocks north of the White House.
For over 10 years, I’ve maintained a Tumblr blog called “It’s art if I say so,” a quote from my favorite conceptual artist, Marcel Duchamp, as well as my answer to the eternal question “what is art?”
My art-products collection is continually being improved and updated. Scroll horizontally to see the whole thing.
Available exclusively through the experience of using an Art-o-mat machine! Like the one in the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)!
Auction #1: Timeline 2011-2024, 14 artworks, plus Trevor Young’s Gulf gas pump turned floor lamp.
Auction #2: Timeline 1983-2010, 12 artworks, plus a set of 6 Raymond Pettibon SST Publications booklets.
