Katherine Ann Craig Persicone
Po box 32010 Detroit MI 48232
Bachelor of Fine Arts| College For Creative Studies| 2008 | BFA
Masters of Fine Arts | Cranbrook Academy of Art | 2015| MFA
Exhibitions
“Leavening Something” Playground Detroit MI 2015
“Alumni Exhibition” Red Bull House Of Art, Detroit MI 2015
“Degree Exhibition” Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills MI 2015
"We Have A Dream" Inner State Gallery, Detroit MI 2015
“Experiencing Perspectives” Mercedes Benz, Farmington Hills MI 2015
“Synesthesia” Red Bull Music Academy, Red Bull House Of Art, Detroit MI 2014
“Cycle Seven” Red Bull House of Art Installation, Detroit MI 2014
“Glided” Whitdel Arts, Detroit MI 2014
“Exactly” Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills MI 2013
“Navel" Cranbrook Academy of Art, North End Studio, Detroit MI 2013
“Moran St” The Alley Project Venice Biennale, Venice Italy 2012
“The Ultra Real” North End Studios, Detroit MI 2012
“Flooding Rosa Parks” Center Galleries College For Creative Studies, Detroit MI 2012
“In Progress” Creative Rights Benefit, Ann Arbor MI 2012
“Reaction” North End Studios Gallery Installation, Detroit MI 2012
“Extremes” Gallery Project Installation, Ann Arbor MI 2011
“Works On Paper” North End Studios, Detroit MI 2011
“Pop Up Detroit” The Kresge Building, Detroit MI 2010
“Reaction” North End Studios Gallery Installation, Detroit MI 2010
“For the love of the letter” 323 East Gallery Group Show, Royal Oak MI 2010
“Let The Silence Have Its Say” Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Bloomfield MI 2009
“Spring Show” College For Creative Studies Student Exhibition Juried, Detroit MI 2008
“Objectivity” Advanced Sculpture Show, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit MI 2008
“Fleeting Scapes” Installation, Green Thumb Gallery, Detroit Michigan 2008
“Half Deserted” Soft Sculpture Exhibition, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit MI 2008
“Spring Show” College For Creative Studies Student Exhibition Juried, Detroit MI 2007
“Actions Speak Louder Than Words” U245 Gallery College For Creative Studies, Detroit MI 2007
“Possession” Detroit Industrial Project Installation, Detroit MI 2007
“Theoretically Soft” Russell Industrial Center: Soft Sculpture, Detroit MI 2007
“Fluxus” Cranbrook Academy of Art Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills MI 2006
“Hip Hop Film Festival” Flint Institute of Arts, Flint MI 2006
“Spring Show” College For Creative Studies Student Exhibition Juried, Detroit MI 2006
“Night Under The Stars” Art Auction, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit MI 2006
“Ephemeral” College For Creative Studies, Detroit MI 2005
“Spring Show” College For Creative Studies Student Exhibition Juried, Detroit MI 2005
Publications
Cranbrook Academy of Art Exactly Hi-Tops Masters Theses Bloomfield MI 2015
“Detroit Street art: 35 must-see pieces” Detroit Free Press Detroit MI 2015
“Playground Detroit Featured Artist Exactly Hi-Tops” Playground Detroit, Detroit MI 2015
“Experiencing Perspectives” Mercedes Benz, Farmington Hills MI 2015
"Hi-Fructose" Preview: We Have A Dream Group Shoe at Inner State Gallery, Detroit MI 2015
“Complex” Detroit Artists Honor MLK JR Dream with a group Show, New York NY 2015
“Infant Mile” Year 1 Anthology Book Detroit MI 2015
“Detroit Walk-In Portrait Studio” Corine Vermeulen, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit MI 2014
“Infant Mile” "Willed Fires to Willed Flowers" Borderline Detroit: Essay 18, Detroit MI 2014
“Experiencing Perspectives” Mercedes Benz Cranbrook Academy of Art, Farmington Hills MI 2014
“Canvas Detroit” Julie Pincus / Nichole Christian, Detroit MI 2014
“Infinite Mile” A Journal of Art + Cultures Excavated Detroit: Essay 19 "Borderline", Detroit MI 2014
“Navel” Magazine Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit MI 2013
“Illuminated Mural” Real Detroit Cover “April, Detroit MI 2013
“Curriculum Mix Tape” Detroit Future Youth, Detroit MI 2012
“Illuminated Mural Can Art: Rebuild A Community” Mercedes Benz, Detroit MI, 2011
“Illuminated Mural” Hour Detroit Magazine February, Detroit MI 2011
“Young Broke And Beautiful” IFC International Film Channel, Detroit MI 2011
“Illuminated Mural” Palladium Boots, Catalog North End Studios, Detroit MI 2010
“Detroit Lives Documentary” Vice Magazine / Palladium Boots, Detroit MI 2010
“Illuminated Mural” Vice Magazine, New York NY 2010
“Turning Blight Into A Sight” The Detroit News, Darren A Nichols, Detroit MI 2009
“A Distressed Canvas In Detroit” Half A Tank The Washington Post, Detroit MI 2009
“Craig Falley Show” NPR National Public Radio, Detroit Today, Detroit MI, 2009
“Motor City Motors” Original Productions, Discovery Channel Mural, Detroit MI 2009
“The Price Is Right” The Detroit News, Michael H Hodges, Detroit MI 2008
Accomplishments
Teaching Assistant, Experimental Painting College For Creative Studies, Detroit MI 2014
Panelist, College For Creative Studies Liberal Arts Department, Detroit MI 2012
Semester in Detroit" Panelist University Of Michigan, Detroit MI 2012
Allied Media Conference community mural workshop, Detroit MI 2011
Concepts Lecture College for Creative Studies: Gilda Snowden, Detroit MI 2011
Art Director North End Studios, Detroit MI 2009-2013
Curator of The Alley Project TAP, Detroit MI 2010-2013
Covent House Art Outreach, BBAC fundraiser, Bloomfield MI 2010
Allied Media Conference public art tour, Detroit Michigan 2010
“Illuminated Mural” Community + Public Art Detroit, North End, Detroit MI 2009
Allied Media Conference public art tour “Mural art in Southwest Detroit” Detroit MI 2009
Best of Show, Manoogian Visual Resource Center, College for Creative Studies, Detroit MI 2008
DDA: Window Display Installation, Ferndale MI 2009
The Parade Company: Sculptor, Detroit MI 2008
Garfield Windows Installation, Detroit MI 2007
Grants Awards
“Illuminated Mural” Community + Public Arts Detroit- CPAD Lead Artist North End College For Creative Studies, Kresge
Foundation, Skillman Foundation, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Detroit MI 2009-2011
“TAP” The Alley Project Young Nation Community + Public Arts Detroit CPAD College For Creative Studies, Kresge
Foundation, Skillman Foundation, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Detroit Future Youth, Detroit MI 2008-2012
Y.S.E.S. Young Social Entrepreneur Society “Project Fame” “Camp Positive Influence” Kresge Foundation, Skillman
Foundation, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Vanguard CDCD Detroit MI 2009-2010
Painting Scholarship Award Recipient, ITC Holding Company, Detroit MI 2008
Public Art
“Art Town” Ferndale Public art display two year lone to the DDA Ferndale MI 2015
“Electric Forest” Red Bull House of Art Installation Electric Forest, Rothbury MI 2014
“Red Bull Music Academy Mural” Mural Detroit MI 2014
Graphic Jams, Young Nation with Skillman Foundation, 2008 Detroit
“Excavated Zen Meditation Garden” Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield MI 2013
“Water Fall Water Color Landscape Painting” Lincoln Street Art Park, Detroit MI 2013
"The Sauna Project" North End Studios, Detroit MI 2013
Sponsored by MOCAD Bookstore Plutonium Paint, Detroit MI 2012
“Better Block Mural” Detroit Design Festival Mural, 2012
“Tessellation Mural” TAP 228 The Alley Project, Detroit MI 2012
“The Alley Project” Curator, Detroit MI 2010-2013
“TAP” “The Alley Project” Community + Public Arts Detroit, Detroit MI 2012
“Y.S.E.S” Young Social Entrepreneur Society Vanguard, Detroit MI 2011
“North End Studios” Art Director, Detroit MI 2009-2013
“Illuminated Mural” North End Community + Public Arts Detroit, Detroit MI 2009
DDA: Window Display Installation, Ferndale MI 2009
“Camp Positive Influence Mural” Vanguard Mural Instructor, Detroit MI 2009
The Parade Company: Sculptor, Detroit MI 2008
“Black Book Class” Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Mural, Detroit MI 2007
“Graphic Jam” Young Nation Mural Painting, Detroit MI 2006
Urban Neighborhood Initiatives, Black Book Class Phoenix’s Academy, Detroit MI 2009
Garfield Windows Installation, Detroit MI 2005-2007
Youth Development
Detroit Future Youth, Young Nation “T.A.P.” The Alley Project, as Curator of Gallery Installation art and Media Working
with Youth in the Southwest community. 2012
The “Illuminated Mural” Light Boxes Sculptor Project North End Community + Public Arts Detroit, Youth Summer
Employment, youth involved public art work East Grand Local youth collaborating with professional Designers Detroit MI,
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Vanguard, Y.S.E.S. Young Social Entrepreneur Society, Detroit MI, 2009-2011
Drawing and mural painting instructor, Positive youth development Skillman Foundation
“We Our Loving Mural” Loving elementary school, Y.S.E.S Young Social Entrepreneur Society Painting instructor, Chase
Bank Foundation, Mural instructor Detroit MI, 2010
“We Must Stand For Our Community” Vanguard, Sponsored by The Skillman Foundation,
JP Morgan Chase, The Kresge Foundation, College for Creative Studies, Detroit MI, 2010
Studio One, art outreach, BBAC Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham 2009-2010 drawing |stencils |art therapy,
workshops fundraiser
T.A.P. “Tessellation” Mural The Alley project, site spastic painting, Detroit MI, 2012
Mural Artist, Better Block, Detroit Design festival Oakland, Detroit MI, 2012
Covent House Art Outreach, BBAC Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham 2009-2010 Drawing, stencils |art
therapy, workshops
Vanguard, Camp Positive Influence, drawing and mural painting instructor, Detroit MI, 2009-2010 an enrichment
experience for young artists, Skillman Foundation
Allied Media Conference: Public Art Tours, Detroit MI, 2009-2011
South West Solutions, Mural at Monger Elementary School, Detroit MI, 2009