Kate Daughdrill
Featured Artist
Kate Daughdrill is an artist, urban farmer, writer, and speaker based in Detroit. She received a BA in Studio Art and Political & Social Thought from the University of Virginia and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Recent projects include Detroit SOUP, a monthly dinner that funds micro-grants for creative projects in Detroit, and the Edible Hut, a community space with a living, edible roof in a public park in Detroit’s Osborn neighborhood.
Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Fred Torres Collaborations, the Art Gallery of Windsor, Second Street Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Kunstverein Wolfsburg. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, NYT’s T Magazine, the Toronto Star, Dwell, Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and the Huffington Post. Recent artist talks include the Airbnb's Design Talks, Detroit Institute of the Arts, AIGA San Francisco, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Grand Valley State, Hand-in-Glove, New City Arts Forum, and the University of Virginia. She was recently awarded a 2013 Kresge Artist Fellowship and the Robert C. Larson Venture Award and has received grants from Community + Public Art: Detroit and the Knight Foundation.
Bio courtesy of the artist.
