Studio Tour / Artist Talk with visual artist, writer, filmmaker, and independent curator Catherine Forster
Please join Harvard and IvyPlus alumni for a guided studio tour with Catherine Forster near Olympia, WA. Then we will head to the Olympia Farmers Market for delicious food and interesting crafts.
Forster's trajectory began with a career in microbiology and international business, which paved the way for her current practice. As a microbiologist her preferred medium was a microscope; today it is a camera and a brush.
Her practice explores the relationship between social fabrications and identity, and our tentative connection to nature. Forster incorporates multiple mediums in her work, including painting, film, installation, and writing.
Olympia Farmers Market is where folks can find live music, lunch, baked bread, smoked salmon, produce, arts and crafts, flowers, etc, and a waterfront boardwalk!
Studio Tour / Artist Talk with visual artist, writer, filmmaker, and independent curator Catherine Forster
Harvard and IvyPlus Alumni are invited
Socializing, art, and education
Saturday, August 2, 2025
10:45am ~ 2:30pm PT
10:45am - 12:15pm PT - Studio Tour / Artist Talk with Catherine Forster
12:15pm - 12:30pm PT - drive to Olympia Farmers Market
12:30pm ~ 2:30pm PT - Olympia Farmers Market
Cooper Point, Eld Inlet (outside of Olympia, WA)
About a 2 hour drive from Seattle
Exact address and parking will be sent 48 hours before
Cost: $20
Registration is limited to 60 Harvard & IvyPlus Alumni and Guests
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Catherine Forster
home page
Chasing Tarzan
by Catherine Forster
Amazon books
https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Tarzan-Catherine-Forster/dp/1947966618
Olympia Farmers Market
home page
https://www.olympiafarmersmarket.com/
About Catherine Forster
Catherine Forster is a visual artist, writer, filmmaker, and independent curator based in Olympia, WA. She holds an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Vermont Studio Center fellowship, in addition to numerous residencies in the U.S. and abroad. For business and pleasure, she has traveled extensively, including significant periods of time living in the UK, Italy, and New Zealand. Her native Northwest is where she is now residing. She is the founder and director of LiveBox (2006-2014), a roving gallery focused on new-media art, and is a member of the curatorial committee for the Experiments in Cinema Festival in Albuquerque, NM, a Pacific Northwest Writers’ Conference Novel Competition reviewer, and a Seattle International Film Festival screener.
Forster's trajectory began with a career in microbiology and international business, which paved the way for her current practice. As a microbiologist her preferred medium was a microscope; today it is a camera and a brush. Her practice explores the relationship between social fabrications and identity, and our tentative connection to nature. Forster incorporates multiple mediums in her work, including painting, film, installation, and writing.
She has earned numerous awards for her experimental films. Her artwork is included in the Feminist Art Base, Brooklyn Art Museum, and has exhibited at the Notebaert Museum Chicago, Flint Institute of Art, Carnegie Art Museum, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, South Bend Regional Art Museum, Rockport Art Museum MA, Indianapolis Art Center, Evanston Art Center, Quartier am Hafen Gallery, Cologne, Germany, Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania), Missouri State University, Merwin Gallery Wesleyan University IL, Central Michigan University, Nazareth College Art Center, Rochester, NY, San Diego Art Institute, Llewellyn Gallery, Alfred State College NY, City of Louisville Colorado Sculpture Garden, Exit Art (NY), to name a few.
Her films have screened at the Sao Paul Intl Short Film Festival, Krakow Intl Short Film Festival, Currents Santa Fe Intl New Media Festival, Magmart Film Festival Casoria Intl Contemporary Art Museum (Italy), Seattle Film Institute, East LA Intl Film Festival, the Great Lakes Intl Film Festival, Ascona Film Festival, Ascona Switzerland, IndieFest, La Jolla, CA, Echotrope New Media Arts Festival (Omaha), Simultan Media Arts Festival (Romania), Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Llewellyn Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, Berkeley Arts Center, Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Alfred State College, Alfred, NY, Echo Park Film Center (LA), Buffalo Public Broadcasting TV, World Film Festival Los Angeles, Directors Lounge (Berlin), International Art Film Festival London, Portsmouth Film Festival, Portsmouth, UK, One Minute Film Festival Brazil, 7th Logcinema Art Films, Centro Cultural Borges, Sala " X Experiencias en Escena," Buenos Aires, and San Diego Intl Women Film Festival, among others.
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Your Move by Catherine Forster 
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Out of Reach by Catherine Forster 
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Reflections by Catherine Forster 
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Chasing Tarzan by Catherine Forster - book  |
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