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Graduate Studies Division
Art Department
Graduate Student, TA
Environmental Art and Social Practice
Graduate
Art Department
Kate Jaffe is an educator, weaver, sheep-shearer, quilter, and organic dahlia farmer. Her material practice centers around cloth-making and basket weaving from local materials such as: wool, tule, willow, English ivy, nettle, redwood bark, and fresh indigo. Kate is the founding Director of Santa Cruz KIN (Kids in Nature), est. 2013, a grassroots, land-based education program which teaches elementary students about the natural and cultural histories of Santa Cruz alongside art-making and social and emotional learning and skill building.
Her hobbies include: medicine making, book making, drinking tea, boiling dye mushrooms, gathering natural pigments, bicycle touring and repair, laughing, watching birds, holding newts, saving seeds, sitting close to dogs, and eating persimmons. She believes fundamentally and whole-heartedly that thoughtful/radical pedagogy is a capital “A” Art, and as such centers education in all of her work with the hopes of affecting much needed change and repair for the land and its many vivacious inhabitants.
She earned her B.A. from University of California Santa Cruz in 2014 in Ethnobotany and Natural History and is a Certified Naturalist through the CalNaturalist Program.
Plants, natural history, karst topography, underground rivers, birds.
Cloth production, sheep shearing, spinning, weaving, natural dyeing, fiber economies, gardening, hidden spring networks, natural history, storytelling, geology.
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