Kate Dannessa is a Providence based artist, designer, and educator. She received her BFA in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at New York University, department of Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement. She has worked for numerous designers and high-end fabricators in New York City and Mid-Coast Maine, while pursuing her own practice. Deeply engaged in experimentation, her work explores nonlinear methods and their importance to the creative process. Whether personal, educational, or client related- she approaches each project as a maker and centers materiality as a means to enhance experience. Her current research is in embodied cognition and objects as a form of language, provocation, and mechanism of understanding.  

Assistant Professor @ RISD

Designer w/ Altimeter Design Group

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