Kat Dakota Art and Graphic Design

My mother and author, Geri Pool and I have finished our book about creation. She wrote the poetry and I created the full spread illustrations which are on every page. Click here to find out more about our book at a discount price!
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It was a blast having artwork in the “Between Us” jury entry exhibit held at the Crooked Tree in Traverse City. I also was invited to participate in the “Artist Talk”. Attending shows and talking with other artist and artist enthusiast is always my favorite part in creating artwork. Hopefully I will be in more events like this…but for now I have been working on a book with my mom, titled “And It Was Check”. Check out more news on that subject.

Painting outdoors creates new challenges as a painter. For one you need to look at the surrounding beauty that surrounds you. How do you narrow down such vistas? Well this year at the last Gene Rantz Plein Air Paint Out in Northport I decided to paint the cool old truck of Overlook Road in Northport. Everytime I passed that fruit stand I told myself I needed to try to paint that truck. So I did. And… my finished painting “Still Truckin’” earned an Honorary Award! How inspiring! Thank you Northport!

A great honor has come about to fuel my energy even more! The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA) which has world distribution selected one of my oil paintings of a pet portrait to be on the August 2024 cover! You can read the article by clicking on this link.

Exciting news! Meakalia Previch-Liu from the Leelanau Enterprise wrote a wonderful article featuring Debra Howard and myself in the 2023 Color Tour magazine. It’s an honor to be selected among many fantastic artists in the area. You can read the article by clicking on this link.

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