ON THIS EPISODE

This week on First Coat we have Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann. Katherine is based in Washington, DC and creates work in her studio and in public space. She has held various residencies and fellowships, including a Fulbright grant to Taiwan and Arts and Humanities grant in DC. She has exhibited at the Walters Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Rawls Museum, US Consulate in Dubai, A.I.R. and many more galleries. I spoke with Katherine about how she started doing public art, the three most influential people for her, and what it’s like to be a mom and an artist. 

This interview was recorded May, 2020.

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LINKS

• Sumi ink 

• Yupo paper 

• Decoupage 

• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 

• Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

• His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman

• The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

• Grace Hartigan

• Morris Louis

• Joyce Kozloff

• Mequitta Ahuja

• The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin

Guest | Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, Artist

Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann received her BA from Brown University and MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art.  She is the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Taiwan, the AIR Gallery and Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Fellowships in New York, NY, and the Individual Artist Grant, Arts and Humanities Grant, Mayor’s Award and Hamiltonian Fellowship in Washington, DC.  She has attended residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Blue Sky Dayton, Vermont Studio Center, Salzburg Kunstlerhauss, Triangle Workshop, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Bemis Center for the Arts, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the Jaipur, India Carbon 12 Residency. Some of the venues where Mann has shown her work include the Walters Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Rawls Museum, the US consulate in Dubai, UAE, and the US embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon. Mann is currently an instructor at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Follow Katherine on Instagram (@ktzulan on Instagram, #ktzulan) and check out her website.

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