Short Bio
Kat Warwick is a native of Texas, born in Dallas, raised in Garland and educated in Denton. Kat seeks to enrich her local and world community through sharing her knowledge and creating beautiful and thought provoking sculpture.
Statement
I once read, “If you know you cannot fail, what would you attempt to do.” I removed the concept of “attempt”. If I know I cannot fail, I will “do”. I will create. I will use my unique self to enrich the world around me.
I am a sculptor, using art to bring joy into the world, one sculpture, one classroom, one helping hand, at a time.
Stone and steel, bronze and glass, clay and color, sun-light and shadow-dance, stories started with endings left untold… Art is a mystery to be discovered. Art is personal, and I invite you to enjoy the beauty of my work and let it calm you or inspire you to discover different points of view and deeper truths.
Biography
Kat Warwick
The Art Life Way
Kat Warwick is a native of Texas, born in Dallas, raised in Garland and educated in Denton. Kat seeks to enrich her local and world community through sharing her knowledge and creating beautiful and thought provoking sculpture. While Kat is a well rounded artist with traditional skills in drawing, painting, ceramics, and bronze casting, the quiet voice of the ancient art form of stone carving calls to her. Although few contemporary artists hear this small still voice, Kat responds to the stone's call. This response altered her artistic journey in an inspiring way.
Since starting her practice in stone carving, Kat's impact on students and her community has exploded. Her event-based neighborhood enrichment program "Art Yard Shenanigans" during the Covid-19 Shelter at Home orders in 2020 earned her the Humanitarian of the Year Award from Sons of Hermann Fraternal Lodge 66 and the Awesome Without Boarders grant from the Harmisch Foundation. More recently, in 2022, her work with the Visual Arts Guild of Frisco earned her the Volunteer of the Year award.
When others are in need of assistance, Kat answers the call. Putting her personal art style aside, Kat has assisted professional artists by sculpting, rigging, forklift operation, planning, trouble-shooting, transportation, and installation. Artists Kat has worked with in this capacity include Art Wells, Eliseo Garcia, and most recently, Julie Richie.
Aside from her love of community, Kat is a skilled stone carver, sculpting works of art which create stories to be discovered. Stories that are thought provoking for those who wish to expand their understanding of humanity, themselves and our world. These stories are told through simplified animal shapes and non-representational shapes, positive and negative spaces, and the shadows and highlights that dance across the river rock textures of her work. For those folks who simply need respite from our over-stimulated world, these stories dissolve into quiet whispers and her work becomes simple beacons of beauty and peacefulness. Always pushing to find more effective ways to communicate through art, Kat occasionally adds welded steel, and cast bronze, to select stone sculptures, leading to more in depth story telling.
Others have stories to tell and Kat is eager to help tell these though her artistic skill. Working closely with her clients, Kat stays true to her style while allowing these commissioned works to tell other people's truths and experiences.
Knowing stone is not a renewable resource, Kat also uses cast-off shards of stone carved off of larger sculptures, these shards of landfill stone become beautiful works of tiny art. She obtains discarded countertop marble, creating large works of art with small footprints for placement in tight spaces.
Looking forward into 2023 Kat will continue to expand her artistic scope through education and experimentation. Additionally Kat will continue her humanitarian work, with the help of the 2022-23 Collin and Denton counties cohort of the The Leadership Training Institute of The North Texas Business Council For The Arts, by creating a pilot program from her concept of bringing art into underserved neighborhoods.
Resume / CV
Kat Warwick
The Art LIfe Way
Achievements, Awards and Honors
2022 2nd Place Creme de la Creme-Judge, Jed Morse Nashure Sculpture Ctr.
2022 PreQualified Emerging Artist The City of Fort Worth Public Art Program
2022 3rd Place Texas Sculpture Association
2021 2nd Place Texas Sculpture Association
2020 Humanitarian of the Year Sons of Hermann Lodge 66, Dallas TX
2020 Awesome without Borders Grant The Harnisch Foundation
2019 Best in Show Eyes of Texas, Grapevine TX
2018 Best Figurative Award In The Style of the Old Masters, Sacramento CA
2017 3rd Place Brush with Burden, Baton Rouge LA
Collections and Commissions of Note:
Preservation Dallas, Virginia McAlester Tribute The Aldridge House Museum
Buster Corley, Dave and Busters Sports Bar Private Collectio
Angela Scheuerle MD, Pediatric Genetics Expert Private Collection
Related Professional Work:
2019 - Current Instructor/Manager, Stone Dept. Creative Arts Center of Dallas
2015 - Current Owner/Artist The Art Life Way
2008 - April 2020 Instructor/Performer/Producer Vow to Dance Furloughed/COVID-19
1988 - 2008 Design & Sales Professional Six B Labels and Stone Legends
Professional Associations:
International Sculpture Association
Texas Sculpture Association
Creative Arts Center of Dallas
Visual Arts League of Alan
Visual Arts Guild of Frisco
PAX Public Art Exchange/Administrator
Education:
2022-23 Leadership Training Program North Texas Business Council for the Arts
2022 Marble Carving Studies Carving Studio and Sculpture Ctr., Vermont
2019 Marble Carving Studies Marble Institute, Colorado
2018-19 Apprentice Art Wells/Master Stone Carver
2017 Stone Carving Studies 2Sculpt Workshop, Kansas
2014-19 Stone and ClaySculpture Study Creative Arts Center of Dallas
1999-2000 Bronze Casting Studies Brookhaven College DCCC
1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts The University of North Texas
2022 Events of Note
Creme de la Creme* - Frisco Discovery Center, Frisco, TX
Stroll: Forest Hills Magazine In Print Publication, Dallas, TX
The State Fair of Texas - Outdoor Sculpture Garden, Dallas, TX
Pallette to Palate Love for Kids Gala - Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas, TX
Elements Sculpture Garden - Elements Public Art Council, Arlington, TX
Set In Stone - Solo Show The Cove, McKinney TX
Arts Goggle - Near Southside Inc., Fort Worth, TX
Art 214 - Dallas Cultural Affairs - 2 locations, Dallas TX
Canvas Rebel - Online Interview Internet, World
Deep Ellum Arts Festival - DECA Fine Art Gallery @ Sons of Hermann Hall, Dallas TX
TSA Members Competition* - Tower Gallery, Grapevine TX.
2021 Events of Note
The Other Art Fair - Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, TX
The State Fair of Texas - Outdoor Sculpture Garden, Dallas, TX
Virginia McAlester Tribute - Aldridge House Museum, Dallas, TX
TSG/ArtSpace 111 Collaboration - ArtSpace 111 Sculpture Garden, Ft. Worth, TX
Texas Now Online Showcase - ArtSpace 111, Ft. Worth, TX
New Texas Talent XXVIII - Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
Black, White & Shades of Gray - Cotton Mill Gallery, McKinney, TX
Art214 Dallas Cultural Affairs - 3 locations, Dallas TX
TSA Members Competition* - Tower Gallery, Grapevine TX
Advocate Magazine Lakewood Edition - January 2021, Dallas, TX
2020 Events of Note
Art Yard Shenanigans - The Art Life Way Studio, Dallas, TX
Art en Blanc - The Gallery 8680, Frisco, TX
TX Sculpture Association - Coppell Arts Center, Coppell, TX
Visual Arts League of Allen - Blue House Too Gallery, Allen, TX
Advocate Magazine Lakewood Edition - April 2020 & July 2020, Dallas, TX
WFAA Channel 8 Human Interest/Covid-19 Story, Dallas, TX
NBC Channel 5 Human Interest/Covid-19 Story, Dallas, TX
99 Bottles Music Video, International
2019 Events of Note
TSA Membership Show - Tower Gallery, Grapevine, TX
Deep Ellum Art Festival - Deep Ellum Neighborhood, Dallas TX
Eyes of Texas Exhibition* - McKinney Theater, Grapevine, TX
Art of the Human Form - Cotton Mill Complex, McKinney, TX
Texas Visual Arts Assoc., - TSA Gallery, Dallas, TX
Creative Arts Ctr. Instructors Exhibition - Eisemann Performance Hall, Dallas, TX
Creative Arts Ctr. Members Exhibition - Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas, TX
Mill House ArtFest - Cotton Mill Complex, McKinney, TX
The Other Art Fair - Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, TX
Art Mart - Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
2018 Events of Note
Deep Ellum Art Festival - Deep Ellum Neighborhood, Dallas TX
Crespi Estate - Whitney /George Fine Art Consultants, Dallas, TX
Hot & Sweaty - 500X Gallery, Dallas TX
In The Style Of The Masters* - Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento, CA
Creative Arts Ctr. of Dallas - Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas TX
Brazos Fine Art Show - Hilton Hotel, Waco, TX
Projects of Note - Working in 3D Sculpture
Elements Residents’ Sculpture Garden - 2022-23
“Howdy” my Texas Shell Stone, Steel and Bronze sculpture was selected for placement in the Elements Sculpture Nature Walk at Viridian Residential Community in Arlington Texas. This is a one-year work on loan program.
State Fair of Texas - 2021 and 2022
For these projects I was responsible for creating an appropriate design, fabrication, rigging, transportation, installation, lighting design, and deinstallation. Each work was displayed on the Texas State Fair grounds for four weeks.
2022: “The Friendship Tree” standing at 6’ tall speaks of our ability to have friendships where our differences are equal to our similarities, in making our relationships stronger rather than weaker. Full of whimsy and appropriate to state fair patrons, this colorful tree is full of brightly colored children of all shapes and sizes holding favorite state fair treats. Built from scrap steel and spray paint.
2021 "Howdy" was presented standing at 4.5' tall, created from Texas shell stone, steel and bronze. This sculpture was the first in a series of sculptures which speak to the isolation and rediscovery we all experienced through the Covid-19 pandemic.
Virginia Savage McAlester Tribute Sculpture - 2021
Working with Preservation Dallas, I was commissioned to create a marble sculpture to be erected as a tribute to Virginia Savage McAlester and the architectural preservation work she accomplished. Originally designed to be placed in Savage Park on Swiss Ave. Dallas; complications in neighborhood association guidelines caused the final installation to be on the grounds at The Aldridge House Museum on Swiss Ave., in Dallas.
My final sculpture stands 6 feet tall in brilliant white Carrara marble atop a 2' Texas limestone plinth placed in the center of a beautifully landscaped courtyard.
I contracted with Preservation Dallas for the sculpture and worked closely with their team of professionals throughout design, planning, sculpting, installation and dedication, This included budgeting, engineering, landscaping, lighting, installation and public speaking.
ArtSpace 111/TSG - 2021/22
“Rediscovered” Texas shell stone, steel and bronze sculpture. Selected for placement in the Texas Sculpture Group’s collaborative work on loan program with ArtSpace 111; this sculpture is part of a series of sculptures which speak to the isolation and rediscovery we all experienced through the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Creative Arts Ctr of Dallas - Dept. Mgr. and Instructor 2018 - Present
All planning, purchasing, reporting, lesson planning, equipment maintenance and classes are in my realm of responsibilities. I am responsible for teaching every aspect of stone carving including design, tool use, safety, stone tolerance, carving with ancient and modern methods, finishing and displaying stone sculptures.
Fabrication - 2018 to Present
I assisted sculptors in studio duties, fabrication, rigging, forklift operation, transportation, installation, and other sculpture related skills as needed.
