Art and design, from the always spectacular District of Columbia…
Hey, you urban music & art types. Take note...
All of my silent art auction information has been moved to its own dedicated website. Please swing on over to www.BermanCole.art to preview all the available art. That's right, the domain name extension is dot A-R-T.
I’m a freelance graphic designer & production artist.
Since 1989, my home-studio 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.
Get in touch at kathleencole@me.com
My graphic design portfolio is located on Adobe’s Bēhance platform.
In early 2024, I became an official Art-o-mat® artist.
Visit artomat.org for a description of the project, then look for my small creations in these locations:
- In Winston-Salem, NC
- artworks-gallery.org
- secca.org
- mojitolatinsoulfood.com
- delurkgallery.com
- www.foothillsbrewing.com
- In Cramerton, NC
- confluencesouthfork.org
- In Greensboro, NC
- reconsideredgoods.org
- In Cheriton, VA
- Slow Ready, The Gallery
- In Key West, FL
- tskw.org
- In Benton Harbor, MI
- liverybrew.com
- In Seattle, WA
- venueballard.com
- In San Antonio, TX
- esquiretavern-sa.com
- In Honolulu, HI
- whitesandshotel.com
- honolulumuseum.org
I created a collection of fun & functional art-objects
The collection was conceived during the Covid-19 pandemic and realized thanks to a DIY-punk ideology and print-on-demand technology. It continually grows as new, customizable products are introduce to the market for the very first time.
Two sets of my designs (the Borscht Belt/Catskills Cafeteria Trays and Breakfast Plates sets) were recently on display as part of the Hill Center Galleries 2024 Regional Juried Exhibition. Appropriately, they were hung just outside the Annie Etheridge Hooks Demonstration Kitchen on the first floor of the historical Civil War era building on Pennsylvania Avenue SE.
I’m a huge fan of the DC Public Library system.
My favorite branch is the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, the Central Library, in the Gallery Place/Chinatown neighborhood of Northwest. It’s in an enormous four story, black steel building, originally designed by the legendary German-American architect, Mies van der Rohe.
Diagonally across the street from the MLK Library is the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), where I’m aiming to get my latest Art-o-mat pieces in the Art-o-mat® machine in the SAAM Luce Center.
Actual me in 2024.
I love public transportation and making small talk with strangers. I have social skills, despite constantly feeling strange and outsider-ish in the modern world.
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?”
Available only through an Art-o-mat machine! It’s Jellyfish Porthole, Butterfly Effect, Crowd in a Box, Grass Sculpture Kit, and Wall Art Kit.
Every art-object is in full use in my own mid-century modern styled apartment. They’re also all available for sale, as they’re reproducible.
