Kate J. Truini is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Roxbury, CT. Kate finds inspiration in the natural world and in human rituals and experience, and is spending her summer at Sable with her hands in the dirt, song in her throat, and sun on her back.

Q & A with Kate:

Tell us about yourself!  
I am an art teacher, dorm parent and director of Environmental Sustainability Programs at a girl’s boarding school in Connecticut. I studied Interdisciplinary Art at Alfred University.

What is(are) your medium(s)?  
I am a performance artist. I also draw and sculpt, with direct influence from my performative practice, which places emphasis on duration, repetition, and attention to materiality.

How did you hear about Sable? 
My brother has a friend at Wheaton College who knows Otto!

What inspires you to make art? 
The human condition, the female experience, domesticity, faith, food, soil, night.

What is your spirit vegetable and why? 
Radish! I am grounded, vivid, (a little bitter), love water and sunshine, and am happiest with my toes in the dirt.

If you could have any superpower, what would it be? 
I’d want to be like that fairy in Fern Gully who can make things grow wherever she touches. That, or being able to breathe underwater.