Meet the newest faculty member of Chesterton Academy, Kate Marin!
Chesterton Academy of St. Philip Neri is excited to announce that Kate Marin will be teaching an art enrichment course this fall! Kate is an incredible artist and we are so glad to have her on team! (You can check out her website here). I’ve asked her to share a little about herself and the course she will offer in this blog post. She is also a newlywed and graciously shared a wedding picture :) - Dr. Murray
Hello! I am a Catholic artist, classically trained in Florence, Italy in figurative drawing and sculpture and I am currently living in Kansas City with my husband, Jorge (we got married June 11th!). While I am a professional working artist and most recently completed a bronze monument of The Holy Family for the monks of St. Benedict’s Abbey in Atchison, KS, I am thrilled to be putting on my ‘teaching hat’ again as I prepare for the enrichment course with Chesterton! (You can register for the class at this link). After substitute teaching K-12 for three years and two years of teaching ‘Drawing I’ and ‘Advanced Drawing’ at Benedictine College as an adjunct professor, I have prayed that I would find my way back into teaching at some point and partnering with this school feels like the perfect opportunity. I value Catholic liberal education and relish the chance to pass on some of what I’ve learned in my own liberal and classical formation.
In my course, the primary mission will be teaching my students to learn to see. Of course, each student is enrolling because they want to learn how to draw, but they must first learn how to see. There will be plenty of drawing and we will also study key points of art history (and possibly sculpting), but everything we do throughout the course will serve the main goal of teaching them to see. My hope is that the students will have some drawings they are happy with by the end of the course, but most importantly they will leave with a deeper ability to see and respond to the world around them.
I look forward to meeting my new students and I am genuinely excited to help them in their further discovery of beauty, of their capabilities, and of our Creator.
~Kate Marin
