Kate Mothes Archives

Bio

Kate Mothes is an independent writer and art curator based in Northeast Wisconsin. She founded Dovetail Magazine and has organized numerous exhibitions with a focus on emerging artists. She regularly presents talks and workshops about online presence for artists and is also a contributing editor with Colossal.

Along the Mississippi River, Two Indigenous Artists Trace Connecting Currents

May 7, 2024

Karen Goulet and Monique Verdin draw on the intersecting histories and ecologies of the third largest watershed in the world.

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An art exhibition with a display of miniature house sculptures. The wall in the background has varying sizes of framed drawings and paintings hung on it.

'Art Against the Odds' Shines a Light on Artists Within Wisconsin’s Justice System

April 24, 2024

The traveling exhibition and archive centers on visibility and art as a survival tool.

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A person of medium skin tone with long brown hair adding paint to an artwork laid out on a table. They are holding a long yellow paintbrush and there are paint jars by them.

Meet Pooja Pittie: Art Helped Her Navigate a Life-Changing Diagnosis

April 16, 2024

Chicago artist Pooja Pittie on exploring the bodymind, disability, and building her practice in the Midwest.

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An art gallery with white walls with mounted artworks of varying sizes, colors, and textures.

An Expansive Exhibition Illuminates Black Narratives from Detroit Artists

April 10, 2024

Twenty figurative artists share works featuring “a spectrum of lived experiences—joy, intimacy, reverie, danger, tension” in exhibition ‘Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit.’

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