From the artist: Kathy McCoy has been a soldier, artist , museum director, published author, performing arts director and lecturer. She holds a B.F.A. in sculpture from Northern Arizona University. She worked primarily in bronze and showed professionally in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. Kathy was selected as the inaugural artist to show at the DeGrazia Gallery of the Sun in Tucson, now a National Historical District.
Kathy returned to her home in the southeast to complete studies in Applied Anthropology at University of Tennessee and Georgia State University. She became the founding executive director of the Monroe County Heritage Museums in Monroeville, AL, the home of Harper Lee and Truman Capote. At that time she began her journey from visual arts to performing arts. She founded, directed and toured nationally and internationally the production of To Kill a Mockingbird, which was selected as a Millennium Year production at the Kennedy Center.
Kathy continued her visual arts artistry as a performing arts director in Pell City, Alabama until her retirement . At that time she returned to her “roots” and began finding her way back into visual arts. Kathy now spends her time between Alabama, Florida and LeDoux , New Mexico.
Q. What art medium do you work in?
A. Oil and ink.
Q. Why that medium?
A. I like the flows and colors.
Q. What inspires you?
A. Natural surroundings, animals, people. The profound beauty of New Mexico is so overwhelming that one has to stop and take notice. And being an artist , I have the passion to interpret that beauty through my oil and ink paintings, whether they be on canvas, tiles or anything with a surface!
Q. What is your preferred work environment?
A. New Mexico!
Q. Who do you most admire and in what ways were you influenced by the individual?
A. I am not influenced by one particular artist but, like all artists I believe, I am influenced by the works of many ,many artist , past and present.
Q. What do you most want visitors to the show to know about you as an artist?
A. I have been both a visual and performing artist all my life.
Q. Where can you work be purchased?
A. Black Belt Treasures, Camden, Alabama, and ARTSCAPE Gallery, Pell City, Alabama. Both are cooperative galleries.
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Thank you, Sharon. Another fascinating profile. Can’t wait to meet everyone.
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