About

Katey Rissi is a Pacific-Northwest-based printmaker and textile artist. Her work explores themes of ecology, time, technology, apocalypse, and enchantment. She is primarily interested in slow, analog, and anachronistic making practices. She is inspired by historical resistance movements and the idea that how something is made defines its meaning.

Katey holds a BFA in graphic design from Western Michigan University with a focus in photography and printmaking, and studied screenprinting at the Art Student’s League of Denver. She teaches art classes to both youth and adults, and has worked in graphic design, program planning, as an elementary school art teacher, and as a teaching artist. She is currently the class coordinator and print studio manager at Alchemy Art Center, a community art center on San Juan Island.

In addition to her art practice, Katey organizes an herbal mutual aid and community wellness project called San Juan Island Herbal Mutual Aid.