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Artist Profile: Katie Kingery-Page

Katie Kingery-Page

617 Kearney St.
Manhattan, KS 66502

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Katie Kingery-Page is an associate professor in the department of landscape architecture and regional and community planning at Kansas State University and serves as associate dean of the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design. Kingery-Page studied sculpture, art theory, ecology, and landscape architecture in the United States and Brazil. Kingery-Page’s background in art and landscape architecture informs her involvement with public art and landscape projects. She is a fifth-generation Kansan who was drawn back to Kansas' tallgrass prairie landscape after several years of working in Illinois and Michigan. Before returning to Kansas, Kingery-Page worked with an interdisciplinary design firm in Ann Arbor, Michigan, designing streetscapes, large scale parks, and assisting community visioning. More recently, she has completed planning and design work for schoolyards and stormwater meadows, with an emphasis on community process and decision-making. Kingery-Page has exhibited drawings, silver halide photographs, sculpture, and audio works in group and solo exhibitions. Her on-going Aesthetics of Weeds drawings began while immersed in constructing and maintaining a designed native plants meadow and contemplating the lengths to which American society will go to eradicate “spontaneous urban plants”, also known as weeds. Trained in prairie ecology, Kingery-Page has a deep appreciation for native plants of the Flint Hills—but also recognizes that in the post-colonial era, our landscapes are a living reminder of all that is “native” and “non-native.” Many of the plants she draws are ubiquitous European field weeds common throughout the Great Plains since White settlement.