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, and is currently pursuing a graduate certificate in Economic Development from Wichita State University.

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, and served as its Executive Director for 7 years. 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).

She currently serves on the boards of Harvester Arts and Groover Labs in Wichita, KS. She is a Fellow of the Kansas Future Fellows program at the University of Kansas's Center for Public Partnerships and Research. Kate worked as the Program Manager at Arts Partners Wichita (2017-2019), and since 2019 has held numerous positions with the Kansas Arts Commission within the Kansas Department of Commerce, including Interim Director in 2022-2023, and is currently serving as Assistant Director.