About
Katie Shulman is an artist, organizer, arts administrator and educator from Washington, DC. She lives, makes art and builds community in Detroit, Michigan. Katie holds an MFA in Studio Art from Syracuse University and a BFA in Fine Art from The Penny W. Stamps School at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her work has been shown nationally including at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY, The Strohl Art Gallery in Chautauqua, NY, I.M Weiss Gallery and Reyes|Finn in Detroit, Michigan.
In 2022 Katie founded Fiber Club*, a network of artists and creative practitioners working in Southeast Michigan. Along with a monthly meeting, Fiber Club* has organized two group shows for Detroit Month of Design and partnered with local organizations and institutions including Buffalo Prescott, The Shepherd and Michigan Medicine to collaborate on arts programing and additional exhibitions.
In addition to her art and organizing practices, Katie has an over ten-year career as an arts administrator. She has worked in various institutions of higher learning and nonprofit education spaces like The 92nd Y, The Studio Institute, Hunter College and Design for America.
She has taught at The 92nd Street Y, Syracuse University, College for Creative Studies, The Boys and Girls Club of Southeastern Michigan and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design where she currently works in Alumni Relations.
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SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Title TBD (forthcoming) with Elanor Oakes, Ann Arbor Art Center Spotlight Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2025 Title TBD (forthcoming), Common Grounds, Traverse City, MI
2023 Myrrah with Forest Hudes, I.M.Weiss Gallery, Detroit MI
2020 A Waltz Between Worlds with Cady Spencer, Random Access Gallery, Syracuse, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Common Thread, University of Michigan, Gifts of Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2024 Fiber Flux, Valede Family Gallery at College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2024 Tribute To The Sculpture Gods, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI
2024 Environment + Microclimate, Curated by Sarah Rose Sharp and Lisa Waud, Boyer Campbell Building, Detroit MI
2024 Piece by Piece: Recent Work from Regional Fiber Artists, Stamelos Gallery, Dearborn, MI
2024 Midwest Regional, Curated by Joey Quiñones, Art Link, Fort Wayne, IN (Honorable Mention)
2023 Comm[unity] II, Playground Detroit, Detroit, MI
2023 Form and Formless: Constellations of Knowledge, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Mending the Net, The Congregation, Detroit, MI
2023 Kehilla, The Downtown Synagogue, Detroit, MI
2023 Rituals, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, TN
2023 Get Together, Reyes|Finn, Detroit, MI
2022 Handwerk: Craft Traditions for Contemporary Living, Next:Space, Detroit, MI
2022 OH+5, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
2021 5th Midwest Open, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 34th Annual Materials: Hard + Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
2020 Appositions, The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
2020 Summer Invitational at White Rock Center for Sculptural Arts, Holmes, NY
2020 CVA School of Art Emerging Artist Exhibition, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
2020 March Six Show, 321 Canal Street, New York, NY
2019 Rubbish, The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS
2021- Witt Visiting Artist, Stamps School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor, MI
2021 Visiting Artist, Department of Fiber and Textiles, College for Creative Studies, Detroit MI
2021 Mentorship and Collaboration with Lauren Fensterstock, Haystack Mountain School of Craft (online)
2020 Chautauqua School of Art Residency, virtual
2019 The Embodied Line with Courtney Puckett, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Haystack ME
2019 The Body: Material Exploration with Jina Sieo, Penland School of Crafts, Penland NC
2019 Turner Semester, Art in LA Residency, Syracuse University
2016 Fix and Flux with Lisa Bulawsky, Penland School of Crafts, Penland NC
2016 Intaglio, Chine Collé and the Figure with Brian Shure, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO
2015 Survey of Printmaking with Thomas Lucas, Penland School of Crafts, Penland NC
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2024 Knight Art + Tech Expansion 2023 Grant Recipient with Fiber Club*
2023 Creator of Culture, Culture Source, Grant Recipient
2020 2020 Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship nominee
2019 VPA Graduate Memorial Scholarship and Fellowship Grant Recipient
SELECTED LECTURES
2024 Piece by Piece: Recent work from Regional Fiber Artist, Artist Talk, Stamelos Gallery, Dearborn, MI
2023 In the Making, 2019- Present, Sam Fox School of Art & Design, St. Louis, MO
2023 Artist Talk: Intro to Fiber Structures, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2022 An Introduction to Iterative Thinking in the Studio, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
2021 Artist Talk, Stamps School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor, MI
2021 From Rope to Baskets (&more!), College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2021 Skin to Skin, Chautauqua School of Visual Art, Chautauqua, NY
2021 From Rope to Baskets: A Deep Dive into Iterative Thinking in the Studio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2021 Body Language: Accessing the Extensive Vocabulary of Human Form Through Printmaking, Remote Contact Virtual Printmaking Symposium, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Alpesh Kantilal Patel, “Curatorial Perspective: Form and Formless” Surface Design Journal, Winter 2023. 28-30
2023 Suzanne Chessler, “Katie Shulman and Detroit’s Vibrant Fiber Club Community”, The Detroit Jewish News
2023 Sarah Rose Sharp “Katie Shulman’s Delicate Dance with Fiber”, Hyperallergic
SELECTED RELATED EXPERIENCE
2024 Mentor, Wyoming’s Creative Economy Program, Laramie, WY
2023 Visiting Artist and Critic, Sam Fox School of Art & Design, St. Louis, MO
2023 Visiting Critic, Second Year Studio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2022 Founder, Fiber Club*, Detroit, MI
EDUCATION
2020 Syracuse University, Master of Fine Arts
2010 University of Michigan, Bachelor of Fine Arts