BIO: Kate Farrington, PhD, is a philosopher and artist-in-social-practice doing creative research at the intersections of art, climate change, and environmental ethics. Her core philosophical practice engages the ideas of place-as-medium, thinking-through-place, and shared authorship of place. In 2022, she...
Read MoreBIO: Kate Farrington, PhD, is a philosopher and artist-in-social-practice doing creative research at the intersections of art, climate change, and environmental ethics. Her core philosophical practice engages the ideas of place-as-medium, thinking-through-place, and shared authorship of place. In 2022, she co-founded the Ocean School Collective (OSC), an artistic research laboratory dedicated to promoting "ocean thinking" as a new environmental ethic, expanding the cultural sphere to include the world of whales. Kate is a trans-disciplinary artist, working across media in painting, installation, socially engaged art, creative pedagogy as art, public art, and new media art. She hosts a podcast called Place-As-Medium Podcast with BevCam in Beverly devoted to making contemporary art and philosophy accessible to all.
Over the past sixteen years, she has received numerous awards and recognition, including a grant from the Mellon Foundation, participation in the 2022 NEH Summer Institute, “Engaging Geography in the Humanities", a 2018 Cornelia Endowed Fund for travel to South Korea, and the Annamae and Allan Crite Prize (first prize) for her master's thesis in liberal arts from Harvard University. She is a college professor teaching across the humanities and specializing in contemporary art & theory, philosophy, and environmental ethics. She has taught at numerous institutions throughout the greater Boston area, including Montserrat College of Art, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Endicott College, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Emerson College. Her book Place-as-Medium and New Grounds for Thinking in Contemporary Art was published by Routledge in 2026.
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