Katheryn Horne
Biography
Katheryn Horne (she/her/hers) is a wide range printmaker from Fall River, Wisconsin. Her current work focuses on the reclamation of her indigenous history and culture through printmaking. Horne graduated from the University of Wisconsin La Crosse (UWL) with a BS in Art and a minor in psychology. She is continuing her growth and studies at the University of Colorado Boulder by working towards her MFA with an emphasis in printmaking. She self-organized a solo exhibition, “Unframed”, and co-organized two senior exhibitions, “Inertia//Momentum” and “Trash Talk, et. Al”. Horne was a featured artist in the 2020 and 2021 All Student Juried Art shows, as well as at the Campus Climate Hate and Bias Symposium and UWLs Asian, Latina, African, Native American Womxns annual Womxs Dinner. Her prints have been exhibited at the University Gallery in La Crosse, Wisconsin, MoPrint@1101 in Littleton Colorado, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, Tennessee, and more
Artist Statement
My practice is reclaiming a history, a culture, through repetition, research, and exploration of new processes. Sewing, beading, and layering make up the core of my practice. I never learned to bead, and I never learned to sew, but I am teaching myself. All these things guide me in my practice and will continue to help me learn and grow as I move forward.
Learning new, safer printmaking processes has also been a main part of my practice this year. It is essential to my experience, as a water protector and as an Indigenous person, because it is valuable to share this knowledge with my communities as I move forward. We have one earth and I have a responsibility to ensure that my practice does not contribute in harming her.
As a water protector and a person in a fight to bring truths to the front, I create that which shares and teaches my viewers about myself and who I am.