Cat Mazza is a visual artist who combines craft with digital media to explore the overlaps between textiles, technology, and labor. Mazza has received fellowships and grants from Creative Capital, the Rockefeller Foundation and MacDowell. Her animation Knit for Defense is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection. Past work has shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), the Museum of Arts and Design (New York City), Triennale Design Museum (Milan), Garanti Gallery (Istanbul), the Jönköpings läns Museum (Sweden) and the Milwaukee Art Museum. She has also exhibited at new media festivals The Influencers (Barcelona); Futuresonic (Manchester), FILE (São Paulo) and Ars Electronica (Linz). She has presented her work in artist lectures at numerous venues including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University and California College of the Arts. Mazza was an early staff member of the New York City art and technology center Eyebeam from 1999-2002. She received her M.F.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2005), a B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University (1999) and is associate professor of art at UMass, Boston (2007-present).
Cat Mazza
Studios
Irving Fine
Cat Mazza worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…