Discipline: Film/Video

Katherine Arnoldi

Discipline: Film/Video
Region: Bronx, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995
More: www.katherinearnoldi.com
Katherine Arnoldi is an American writer and graphic novelist. Arnoldi is perhaps best known for her graphic novel, The Amazing “True” Story of a Teenage Single Mom (Hyperion: 1998). In 1999 the book was cited as a top book of the year by the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 452 libraries. Arnoldi's 2007 collection of stories All Things Are Labor won the Juniper prize. She has also been a recipient of the Hensfield Transatlantic fiction award, a Jerome Lowell DeJur award in fiction from the City College of New York and two New York Foundation for the Arts awards. In 2008–2009 she was a Fulbright scholar in Paraguay. She has been a fellow at the Blue Mountain Center and MacDowell. Currently Arnoldi is an adjunct professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

Studios

Mansfield

Katherine Arnoldi worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

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