Kathleen Ferguson-Huntington
New Mexico, USA
Kathleen Ferguson-Huntington
Zipper Mouth
2020
Artist Kathleen Ferguson-Huntington has a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Master of Arts in Digital Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
An accomplished multi-media artist she has been included in many exhibitions nationally and internationally, for the past forty-fve years, which included the Whitney Biennial of Contemporary American Art.
Ferguson-Huntington, frst came to Taos, New Mexico on a Wurlitzer Grant. Later she spent twelve years in Doha, Qatar where she taught art and design at Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar and traveled extensively in Europe and Asia. Her work from that period was based on her exploration of the Silk Road.
She has received many grants and awards including Ford Motor Company and HSBC Bank International grants. She has been an artist in residency at: The Harwood Foundation of the University of New Mexico, Sanskriti Foundation, Delhi, India, Bait Al Baranda Museum, Muscat, Oman, and Tyrone Guthrie Centre in the Republic of Ireland.
Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Arizona Republic, Art in America, New Art Examiner, and Art News to name some.
In 2012 Kathleen returned to New Mexico and started to write a memoir called “Move Over Scheherazade” about her time in the Middle East. Vasari21 did a radio pod cast about this. Kathleen was interviewed by Ann Landi, Art Critic. It covered the experiences of teaching in Qatar 2000-2012 and information about her book, http://vasari21.com/radio-vasari21/ Now on Soundcloud.
For a number of years here in New Mexico she has worked on a major research project. This details how the Americas are an extension of the Silk Road. The project is called “Silk and Silver”. This links the Americas in trade with China, Japan and other parts of Asia via the Manila Galleons from 1565 to 1815.
Ferguson-Huntington, frst came to Taos, New Mexico on a Wurlitzer Grant. Later she spent twelve years in Doha, Qatar where she taught art and design at Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar and traveled extensively in Europe and Asia. Her work from that period was based on her exploration of the Silk Road.
She has received many grants and awards including Ford Motor Company and HSBC Bank International grants. She has been an artist in residency at: The Harwood Foundation of the University of New Mexico, Sanskriti Foundation, Delhi, India, Bait Al Baranda Museum, Muscat, Oman, and Tyrone Guthrie Centre in the Republic of Ireland.
Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Arizona Republic, Art in America, New Art Examiner, and Art News to name some.
In 2012 Kathleen returned to New Mexico and started to write a memoir called “Move Over Scheherazade” about her time in the Middle East. Vasari21 did a radio pod cast about this. Kathleen was interviewed by Ann Landi, Art Critic. It covered the experiences of teaching in Qatar 2000-2012 and information about her book, http://vasari21.com/radio-vasari21/ Now on Soundcloud.
For a number of years here in New Mexico she has worked on a major research project. This details how the Americas are an extension of the Silk Road. The project is called “Silk and Silver”. This links the Americas in trade with China, Japan and other parts of Asia via the Manila Galleons from 1565 to 1815.