Katherine Whitlock

Mer Docs, founded by Fay Robles, features short documentaries on the life and work of some of the coolest, quirkiest, exceptionally talented females around. It serves as a community for creative women and fans to learn about cool happenings in the art scenes across the United States. Katherine helped produce the Lilian Martinez (BFGF), Steff Bomb, and Carlie Trosclair Mer Docs, and is project managing the upcoming Julie Pinzur (Mokuyobi Threads) feature. 

Macaroni Family was established in 2015 as a traveling pop-up shop featuring unique artworks and products from some of Katherine's favorite artists including: BFGF, Dave's Clubhouse, Devon Tsuno, Dreamory, Hedge by Cora Neil, Mark Johnsen, Kindah Khalidy, Lorien Stern, Napkin Apocalypse, Ria-Leigh, PAMWEAR, COATZ and Tänder. 

In 2015, Katherine won the Fellows of Contemporary Art Curator's Lab Grant and curated an exhibition titled, Uncommon Ground which featured works by Anna Breininger, Julia Haft-Candell, Feodor Voronov, Molly Larkey, and Lindsay August-Salazar. The exhibition ran from August 20, 2016 through October 20, 2016. 

Read the CARLA review here: Uncommon Ground at FOCA

Katherine, along with designer Jennica Atkinson worked together to create the Ben Medansky Book that surveys five years of Ben's art and design practice. It includes a chapter titled, "Fired By The Fire" that coincides with Ben's November 2016 exhibition at Lawson - Fenning that both Jennica and Katherine curated.

Katherine helped organize Lorien Stern's first solo exhibition at Ochi Projects in Los Angeles that ran from June 3 through July 2, 2017. 

Since 2008, Katherine has worked closely with the McCall Family Foundation to co-curate and coordinate fresh stART- a one night art event that, since its 2001 inception, has raised over $1 million for non-profits such as Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), LA’s BEST, and Para Los Niños. 

The Chalkhill Artist Residency in Healdsburg, California awarded Katherine a three week residency for their 2018 Program. 

In early 2018, Katherine in collaboration with Val Surf and Creature Skateboards, created this custom deck available exclusively Val Surf online and at their brick at mortar locations in SoCal.

Over the summer of 2018, Katherine spent time at NatureBridge’s Circle X Ranch location in the Santa Monica Mountains sketching 40+ native plants. Her desire to connect young people with the “wonder of the natural world, igniting self-discovery and inspiring stewardship of the planet,” that she created these prints (below) with the intention of raising awareness and promoting this important organization.

Katherine was awarded a 5 week artist Residency in February/March 2019 at Ochi Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho where she focused primarily on her cartography (and core strength from shoveling a grand total of 11 feet of snow!)

Katherine is a contributing artist to Breaker Zine the regional arts and culture publication for the New Jersey Coast. Her work has been featured in Issues 12 and 13.

In 2019, Katherine was interviewed about her freelance work, project management, and cartography on ilovecreatives.com

The summer of 2020 gave Katherine the opportunity to teach the Introduction to Figure Drawing class at the Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts and Sciences. She also was one of the visiting artists participating in the children’s arts camp where she taught a week of Honeybee education to aspiring artists.

From April-July of 2019 Goodbye To Romance, an exhibition by artist Dan Monick, showed at These Days in Los Angeles and Commune Gallery in Tokyo. The exhibition was accompanied by a 58 page limited edition catalogue. The show was Co-Curated By Katherine Whitlock