Katie Morris is a 1994 graduate of the MAT program at MICA having completed her BFA/MAT as part of the dual degree 5-year program. Katie came to Baltimore from rural Pennsylvania to study painting. After courses with two profoundly influential teachers at MICA, Katie decided to pursue a degree in teaching while shifting her medium to printmaking. She began her career in Arlington, Virginia within a large multi-lingual Elementary School. Katie has experience teaching Middle School and High School art. Her passion and commitment to less structured, more explorative and play-full teaching and learning evolved as she became a mom to two daughters.
Katie has been a member of the MAT faculty at MICA since 2001 teaching Undergraduate and Graduate course work. She serves as the Coordinator for Undergraduate Art Education and teaches a studio class within the First Year Experience (FYE). She has been influential on a variety of Institutional and Academic Committees during her time at MICA. She has taught in MICA’s Summer Teacher’s Institute and MICA’s Young People’s Studio Program. Katie's teaching expands beyond the MICA community as she has lead printmaking workshops for in-service teachers at the state and national level. She’s been an invited artist/educator for both Baltimore County Public Schools and Howard County Public Schools. Katie has taught art part-time at Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School and The GreenMount School. For many years she has been an invited juror at the national level for the Scholastic Arts Awards in New York City. Currently, Katie is serving a second term as a member of the Board of Trustees at The Greenmount School in Baltimore city.
As an active artist, Katie’s studio practices and explorations have influenced her approaches to teaching both in college and within k-12 settings. Putting tremendous emphasis on the temporal and connectedness of everything, her work seeks to create moments of pause, contemplation, and inquiry for herself and others. She recently completed an MFA in Studio Art. Katie’s work has been exhibited in galleries in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and recently at Sense Gallery in Washington DC.
The activities that motivate and refuel Katie involve live music, long or short walks in the woods, observing/recording the early morning sunrise from her urban roof deck, tying/untying knots, visiting the ocean side in autumn and finding/documenting/