About me
With a background in interdisciplinary arts and years of experience mentoring youth across the globe, artist founder Kathryn Ian Gentzke created a unique space where young writers and photographers can bring their visions to life.
After graduating with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Practice from California College of the Arts, Kathryn launched The CCC Project, an organization dedicated to empowering youth through creativity and activism. Before attending CCA, she spent years leading youth mentorship programs across the San Francisco Bay Area, NYC, Upstate New York, and Berlin, honing a playful, collaborative approach to teaching media arts and creative writing.
The three C’s—creativity, curiosity, and community—serve as the foundation of her work. With each young artist and writer in the Creative Youth Collective, she focuses on bringing their story worlds to life, sharing their work widely with the hope of inspiring more young people to create, and donating royalties from book sales to organizations that make positive change.
As a multimedia artist and musician, Kathryn has exhibited and performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Russia. She works both collaboratively and as a solo artist, engaging both analog processes and new technologies in her immersive audio-visual installations, still and moving images, videos, and performances. She is inspired by themes relating to ecology, both scientifically and philosophically, and uses imaging and audio technologies to explore the intersections and relationships between the intimate and the environmental.
https://www.cccproject.space/
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