About me

Raised between The Town (Oakland) and The City (San Francisco), Katherin Canton envisions an arts-centered healthy city to call home. Earning a Bachelors of Fine Arts with highest distinctions from California College of the Arts (San Francisco/Oakland) she explored community arts through a studio practice in photography and textiles. Putting theory to practice during her stay at CCA, Katherin took the reigns as the administrative and community collaborations coordinator at the volunteer-run arts center Rock Paper Scissors Collective. Developing her teaching practice and community engagement in the arts, Katherin has also worked in youth development as a teaching artist with Out of Site  and Southern Exposure's Mission Voices summer program as an artist assistant. Currently she is a Board member with KONO CBD, Oakland; an advisory Board member with SolidariTea, and the Network Coordinator with Emerging Arts Professionals SF/BA.

As a community artist, Katherin intersects community participation, audience engagement, and urban poverty/issues awareness. These social context come through the form of 3D photo transfers and puzzles. Facilitating creative based inquiry by presenting urban development statistics/stories and images of healthy communities, she offers scenarios for audiences to play and imagine a new, ecologically/economically diverse, and vibrant urban life.

PAST LIFE 
Katherin has been a Board and Collective Member with Rock Paper Scissors Collective and the Administrative Gallery Coordinator at Pro Arts, Oakland. Previously as the Community Collaborations Director at Rock Paper Scissors Collective(RPSC), Katherin coordinated partnerships between RPSC artist's and local non-arts organizations to allow equal access to arts education and opportunities to typically under-resourced communities. She and RPSC have been dedicated to working towards opening education and arts opportunities to all communities to enable the Do It Yourself model of entrepreneurship and self-sufficiency through creative opportunities.
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