SMUDGE! Playful Art ExperienceS for Kids Ages 4-10
with teaching artist Cate Clother
Course Details
Young artists will experiment with a variety of mediums and will create two- and three-dimensional art pieces, including drawing, painting, collage, clay, printmaking, eco-arts and more!
Fridays, June 28-August 2, 10am–12pm
$30 per class
About Cate Clother
Cate Clother is is an artist and educator living on unceded land of the Winnemum Wintu and Okwanuchu (Dunsmuir, CA) with her husband and three children. She received her Bachelors in Fine Art from Westmont College and her Masters in Sustainability Education from Portland State. In her early career she worked as an assistant teacher at a Waldorf early childhood center, an art teacher at Portland Children’s Museum, a forest guide at Tryon Creek State Park, and a garden educator at Portland State’s Learning Gardens where she worked alongside low-income and refugee families. She also worked as a camp counselor at Lake Retreat Camp in Seattle, and at Kokrine Hills Camp in central Alaska with Athabascan and Yupik youth. For ten years, Cate lived and worked at Camphill Soltane, an intentional community on Lenape land (southeastern Pennsylvania) where she supported young adults with developmental disabilities. In 2018, Cate returned to her hometown of Dunsmuir, where Cate founded Cedar Grove in 2020. Along with her work for Cedar Grove, she is Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Cordella Press and one half of Clother Creative, a studio offering photography, design, illustration, and more. Cate was born in Mt. Shasta and raised in Dunsmuir by her grandparents, and is glad to have finally returned to the people and place she holds most dear.