Discipline: Visual Art

Kathryn Metz

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Santa Cruz, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1967
Kathryn “Kay” Metz (1932-2018) was a painter and printmaker who received her B.F.A. from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and her M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She studied at Atelier 17 in Paris under the auspices of the College Art Study Abroad, American Center for Students and Artists, and then with Robert Blackburn in New York. After teaching at several well-regarded art institutions, she was hired in 1971 to teach printmaking at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and became Professor Emerita after retiring in 1992. Metz exhibited extensively, participating in numerous group and solo exhibitions internationally. Her work earned her residence grants at the Huntington Hartford Foundation, Pacific Palisades in 1965, and MacDowell. Her works are held in numerous collections, including the New York Public Library; the Library of Congress; the Fresno Art Museum; the Phoenix Art Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chamaliers, France; Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, University of California, Los Angeles; and Special Collections, McHenry Library, University of California, Santa Cruz. She was also an avid supporter of environmental protection efforts in California, served on the board of the Watsonville Wetlands Watch, and aided efforts to protect the Pajaro Valley’s wetlands.

Studios

Adams

Kathryn Metz worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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