Katie Simmons is an artist, educator, and wildlife biologist from the Appalachian mountains in east Tennessee. She holds baccalaureate degrees in art history, visual art, and wildlife biology and her MA in education and MFA in drawing and fiber art. Katie is an instructor of drawing and fiber art at Colorado State University and Front Range Community College. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally in numerous group and solo shows in the United States, western Europe and South America. Her research on feminist aesthetics, the uncanny, and the commodification of bodies through sex trafficking has also been published and presented at regional and national conferences. Katie has been the recipient of the Charlie and Gwen Hatchette Creativity Award, the Keith Foskin MFA Scholarship, the Boynes Artist Award, the Oak Springs Garden Foundation Residency, Centrum Residency, and a finalist for the Women United Art Prize and Prisma Art Prize. She is also a vocal advocate for the Sexual Assault Victim Advocate Center in Colorado. In her free time, Katie loves ultra trail running, spending time with her family, and watching bad tv with her dog.

Katie’s work has most recently been exhibited in a solo exhibit at Metropolitan Community College’s Gallery of Art and Design and she has upcoming shows this spring and summer at the Sanger Gallery in Key West, Florida, the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art in Fort Collins, Colorado and Manifest Galler y in Cincinnati, Ohio.