Kate’s book, Art From Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice was released in March 2024 by Intellect Press of London, and is distributed by The University of Chicago Press. For more information, see the book page above.

Upcoming group exhibitions include Design Museum Holon, in Israel, and the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT in Spring of 2024. Whispers and Screams: Voices from the Belger Collection opens on April 5th in Kansas City, MO.

Kate showed 3 paintings from her Vigil Series at Catalyst Contemporary Art in Baltimore. “Manifest Presence,” an exhibition of contemporary figurative painting, was on view in early 2023. It was reviewed by BMore Art.

Kate’s work, “Complicit”, from the MAGA hat collection, has been acquired by York College.

In May of 2022, Kate was awarded a Professional Development Grant from MD State Arts Council to attend an August residency at The Hambidge Center.

Kate has a solo exhibition at The Peeler Art Center at DePauw University, entitled Evidential Truths. The exhibition will run from Feb. 7-May 13, 2022, and will feature her recently completed 550-hr work, “Reparation: Where Our Greatness Lies.” The virtual tour is here. Kate gave a lecture on Monday, March 21, 2022, 4:15 pm E.S.T., in the Peeler Auditorium of the Peeler Art Center. It is archived on YouTube.

Kate’s “Complicit” MAGA hat is part of the “Stolen Goods” exhibition at York College, opening on the January 6th anniversary of the insurrection, and runs through Feb. 23, 2022.

Kate’s work was included in the exhibition “Inside, Outside, Upside Down” at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, from July 17 to September 12, 2021.

Kate is grateful to have received a 2021 Independent Artist award from the MD State Arts Council. This is Kate’s fourth award, and her third award in the Crafts area.

Kate was a James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Artist in 2020. “The James Renwick Alliance celebrates the achievements of America's craft artists and fosters scholarship, education, and public appreciation of craft art.” The DAS presents four separate events each year, each consisting of a workshop and lecture by an acclaimed craft artist.
The postponed lecture was finally delivered in April of 2021, and is archived here.

Kate is a Fulbright Specialist through 2023, as designated by the Institute Of International Education, Council for International Exchange of Scholars. She is available for workshops, lectures, and consultation in foreign universities for periods of up to 6 weeks.

Kate was awarded an inaugural Shoenberg Fellowship from Montgomery College in MD for the Spring 2021 semester. Dr. Robert Shoenberg generously established the fellowship to support a fully paid, one-semester sabbatical for part-time faculty. Kate used the semester to complete her book on finding visual voice.

Kate presented a paper at The College Art Association Conference in February, entitled, “From Prophets to Professionals: Our Complicity in A Corporatized Art World Paradigm,” as part of the panel “Upending the Gallery-Centric Model of the BFA Thesis.” It is archived on Youtube here.

Kate’s work was featured in several books released in 2020: Not Normal: Art In The Age of Trump, Identity: Contemporary Artists Explore Individuality & Culture, Beaver: The Exhibition, as well as the limited edition Don’t Cut Your Hair. Her work will also be included in the forthcoming Art & Design Fundamentals textbook by Steven Bleicher, and Loaded: Guns In Contemporary Art by Suzanne Ramljak.

Kate’s paper “Standing In The Fire: Navigating the Front Lines of Activist Art Making While Female”, was given at The Southeastern College Art Conference in November 2020, as part of the “DIY: Grassroots Activism” panel. The paper is archived on Youtube here.

Kate’s work is included in the Craft In America Center’s “Democracy 2020” exhibition in Fall of 2020. A brief Youtube artist’s statement is here.

Kate was in conversation with the Textile Museum’s Curator of Contemporary Art, Caroline Kipp, on Wednesday, July 15th, 2020. They discussed Kate’s MAGA Hat series in the context of this historic moment in time. The archive of the interview is available here.

A few pieces from Kate’s MAGA Hat Collection were to be included in the exhibition On The Uses Of History at Dorsky Gallery in New York, May - July, 2020. This exhibition has been cancelled/postponed.

Kate was a visiting artist in the MICA painting department in November of 2020, and gave a virtual lecture to the Pratt Institute in October of 2021.

“DOMESTIC MATTERS: The Uncommon Apron” opened August 31st, 2020, at Peter’s Valley School of Craft in Layton, NJ. Curator Gail M. Brown asked 50 female artists to produce work for the exhibition. The catalog is available for viewing and purchasing here.

Kate was awarded a Maryland Arts Council Grant (Painting) in February of 2019. This is Kate’s third MD Arts Council Grant, and her first grant in the Painting category.

Kate had a solo popup exhibition featuring new MAGA hat work with Jen Tough Gallery Aug 2, 3 & 4th, 2019, in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. It was reviewed here. Jen Tough Gallery closed it doors in early 2020.

Kate Kretz’s Facebook page was disabled for 17 days for posting images of her MAGA Hat series: she wrote a Medium article about it that went viral. A few days after her FB account was restored, her Instagram account was disabled: both have been recovered. New work from the ongoing MAGA Hat Collection will be posted on this website and on any functioning social media platforms. Thank you for your support!

Kate is presently focusing all of her energies in the studio, at work on a significant ongoing series focused on America's bully culture, begun in 2012. You can follow the progress of the series here. Additional venues are being sought for the #bullyculture series, which continues to grow.

Kate has been a recent contributor to the Hyperallergic series, "Drawing In A Time Of Fear And Lies" with "The Stain On Our Flag", "Sociopaths Don't Cry" (crying Donald Trump), "Predator", "Peering Down Trump's Lie Hole", "Mother's Nightmare", “Channeling Our Collective Fury”, and “The Momentum of This Moment”. She has also written several essays for Medium.

Kate was one of 26 finalists for the Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize, a biennial award given in conjunction with a catalogue and juried exhibition at the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work was included in the exhibition  Transformation 10: Contemporary Works in Found Materials, the Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize from September 14, 2018-March 9, 2019, where her hair embroidery work “Rupture” won the People’s Choice Award.