Kathleen Zimmerman

Kathleen Zimmerman received artistic merit scholarships and academic grants from the University of Hartford Art School in West Hartford, CT after she was awarded a public commission from High Plains Arts Council in Loveland, Colorado. At the Art School, she earned her BFA majoring in sculpture & printmaking. Since graduation, she has taken printmaking workshops at Zea Mays Printmaking in MA, made molds of large-scale sculpture for Lands End Sculpture Center in CO, taught art at Irving Robbins Middle School in CT, participated in a five-year residency in Beijing, China, worked with the master printmakers at Modern Multiples in CA before opening up her own art studio in CT. Her artwork is in both public and private collections.

Kathleen Zimmerman's love affair with form, along with her natural tendency to use symbolism and surrealism in her work, has come together to create her distinctive visual language and more recently written language. Zimmerman uses this language to communicate ideas concerning relationships, the environment and culture. Elements of the natural world, especially animals, are the subject matter she uses to express these ideas. Drawing, printmaking, sculpture, the written and spoken word are her medias of choice.