Kathy fahey artist biography

Soft-spoken and studious, Fahey has always been drawn to folk art in various forms. Upon reflection, she realized most of her close friends practice such old-world arts as well—painting, sewing, quilting.

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She’s also attracted to old-fashioned objects and abandoned things, often incorporating them into her sculptural work as a student at MICA.

Fahey credits her father with instilling in her an appreciation for these crafts of yesteryear. He was sick for most of his life and worked from home as a mapmaker. His large basement studio impressed upon Fahey from a young age the marvels of old tools, lightboxes, and darkrooms.

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He was a cartographer at a time when the practice was quickly shifting to become computer-based. Students who’d gone to school for cartography, in fact, would email him every week, Fahey remembers. He was also the first person to put an X-ACTO knife in Fahey’s hand, “probably young Kathy Fahey Artist Profile on artpshere - artsphere.me, carousel MUD