Amy Caterina
Part Time Instructor, Digital Arts
Amy Caterina was born in 1973, in, the Honeymoon Capital of the World, Niagara Falls, NY.
In 1998, she left the east coast and traveled west to California. Caterina studied at California State University Fullerton where she received her M.F.A. in Photography in 2002.
After college, Caterina co-founded Rat Powered Films, an organization dedicated to the presentation of art films from around the globe. With fellow artist Bob Pece, they have been screening films from their home base in the Grand Central Theatre in Santa Ana, California.
Caterina has continued to work on photo and film projects while teaching at various colleges and, in 2004, she completed “6 Shorts About (non) Motherhood,” a short film that investigates conventions and assumptions about marriage and having a baby. In early 2005, Caterina started knitting and gave birth to the Pseudo-Sod, a series that quickly emerged as a major component in her evolving oeuvre of mixed media installations. She was selected to be the artist-in-residence at the Huntington Beach Art Center in conjunction with the exhibition “MANufacture”; during her residency she displays mixed media knitted “grass” covered deer and moose, beside four cemetery plot sized sections of “grass.” The Pseudo-Sod car cover was also featured in 2005 for the first time and presented in various locations throughout Orange County.
Caterina is currently the artist-in-residence at the CSUF Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, California, and will open her first solo exhibition titled, “This used to be real estate, now it's only fields and trees,” on July 5, 2008.
Caterina and Pece (Rat Powered Films) recently received a grant from the Downtown Santa Ana Business Council to launch an online film festival which with premier Fall 2008.
She currently teaches traditional photography, filmmaking, digital photography, and art history at Santa Ana College and Irvine Valley College. Caterina also works as a freelance curator.
http://www.freerangeknitting.com
Complete Digital Arts Class List:
Digital Arts 135 Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
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