Hands-on with Photographic Threads
with Kat Thompson
Join us for a hands-on workshop led by Kat Thompson where participants are invited to re-imagine, re-invent, and re-claim the idea of home through photography and textile. We will delve into the artist’s interpretation of “home” and how it can be pieced together using textile as an act of healing. No experience necessary. All materials provided.
About Kat Thompson
Kat Thompson is a multidisciplinary Afro-Jamaican American artist based in Virginia, who works with photography, textiles, sculptural collages, and installations. Her work combines these mediums to explore notions of Black selfhood within the African Diaspora. Being of Jamaican heritage, Thompson confronts her dual identity through recent projects that depict traces of her family’s journey through personal and found materials. Her focus is to uncover stories that mirror parts of ourselves back to us, including our histories, current realities, and future possibilities. Her works have been exhibited at the Fenwick Gallery and Gillespie Gallery at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, and the Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art in Reston, Virginia. She was the 2021-22 recipient of the Young Alumni Commissioning Award, College of Visual and Performing Arts: George Mason University and was recently awarded the 2023-25 Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship. Thompson holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from George Mason University and her Master of Fine Arts in Photography & Film from Virginia Commonwealth University.
IMAGE: Kat Thompson, Untitled Studio Portrait of Woman