KATE VAN STEENHUYSE received her MFA (Fine Arts) from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and a BFA (Painting & Women's Studies) from Washington University in St. Louis. Kate has exhibited nationally and internationally including exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, London, San Francisco, Wichita, Dallas and more. In 2014 she co-founded Harvester Arts, an experimental residency, public art, and artist capacity-building program in Wichita, KS. She was featured in New American Painting West Edition, was a Fellow of The Career Development Program at The Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia, PA (2006-2008), and served as Ulrich Museum of Art Alliance Board President (2014-1017), graduate faculty at Wichita State University (2011-2017), and board member of the Mid-America Arts Alliance (2017-2020). Kate has worked as Program Manager at Arts Partners Wichita (2017-2019), and as a Regional Field Rep and Placemaking Specialist, then Chief Programs Officer for the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (2019-2022). Kate is currently Assistant Director for the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission.