Join me for the Artist Thrive Summit in Kansas City in May! I'm excited to present the following workshop which builds off my experiences with the Kansas Future Fellows program—come join the fun!

Artists Build Abundant Futures Workshop
Wednesday, May 7th 2025
Artist Thrive Summit
Social science research tells us that where people live is the primary determining factor into how behaviors become normalized in culture. Artists and the arts are catalytic forces in shaping the culture of our local communities and beyond. As many communities and artists struggle with uncertainty, the pitfall of a scarcity mindset is easy to slip into. However, as dreamers and inventors, artists are uniquely poised to be the drivers for creating abundant futures. We can shape the degree to which our communities are places where artists (and therefore communities at large) thrive.

During this workshop we’ll briefly discuss behavioral economic ideas and decision making frameworks that influence our assumptions about money and resources. Then, we’ll work with strategic foresight exercises to create scenarios for the future of our abundant and thriving artist-friendly communities. After fleshing out visions for ideal futures, we'll workshop the necessary levers that must be engaged now to set ourselves on abundant paths to future realities. Lastly, we'll discuss concrete next steps each individual can take to start down the path of achieving those goals.

Saturday April 5th I'll be doing a practice session of that workshop to take the ideas for a spin and get feedback from anyone able to attend. Please join if you are able!
Artists Build Abundant Futures Workshop (Friends & Family Test Run)
Saturday, 4/5 10:30-noon
Harvester Arts at the Lux - 120 E 1st St N Suite 115, Wichita, KS 67202
The workshop will last an hour, I've built in extra time for hanging out & giving feedback. Mimosas & snacks will be served!

REGISTER HERE FOR ARTIST THRIVE

I'm pleased to be selected to be part of the University of Kansas's Center for Public Partnerships & Research Future Fellows program. The Fellows are a diverse group of Kansans committed to learning, using, and sharing Futures Foresight strategies to assist in building models and strategies for an abundant and prosperous Kansas.

See more here.

Slow Simmer
New and Updated Paintings by Kate Van Steenhuyse
Harvester Arts, June 2-25, 2023


My paintings and drawings emphasize the process of reacting. Typically this process unfolds over a few months, but for the works in Slow Simmer, these pieces have been in process or revisited after years of first being started. Painting is a negotiation of ideas and decisions taking physical shape: sometimes proud, lovely, or awkward and most often decidedly not heroic. The finished works serve as riddles meant for contemplation, not as vehicles for a singular message or conclusion. At this moment in my life, I am only able to focus on painting in small snippets of time often separated by months away from the studio.


Slow Simmer is a collection of explorations in how the familiar can be pushed to still surprise. I like to keep the viewer, and myself while working in the studio, constantly questioning, thoughtfully present, and even possibly a bit uncomfortable. The goal is to suspend the viewer in a state of active looking to create a prolonged experience where we get to—for a fleeting moment—set aside the notion of knowing and exist simply in a state of being.


Slow Simmer represents the attempt to hold this value and this approach to process in concert with long stretches of time. How can we manipulate the familiar to continue to find surprise and wonder?

Opening this Friday, November 22nd at the Hutchinson Art Center:
Let's Get Lost
new works by Kate Van Steenhuyse

Friday, November 22, 20195:00 PM
Sunday, December 22, 20195:00 PM

Because of a slight wobble in the Earth’s rotation, the position of the North Star changes on a cycle each twenty-six thousand years. Within a millennium, Polaris will no longer be our North Star. How should a transition on the celestial scale be marked and celebrated here on Earth? And shouldn’t we be planning for this celebration now? Jump!Star, named for pioneering astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941), is the celebration. And it is happening in the Kansas Flint Hills in 2019. Jump!Star is a project of Symphony in the Flint Hills with financial support from the National Endowment for the Arts and conceived of and directed by artist George Ferrandi. Symphony in the Flint Hills is collaborating with Harvester Arts and Chamber Music at the Barn to bring rural and urban people together for arts programming throughout the Flint Hills region, starting NOW.

Don't miss out on all the projects we have going at Harvester Arts - which I really consider an extended part of my artistic practice.

Still kicking yourself for missing my talk? I posted it on my blog so you're in luck!

Lindsey Herkommer reviews the exhibition on KMUW

Check out the blog for fun stuff!