Portfolio
Paralells: A collection of Prints inspired by Poems
September 15th - October 12th, 2023
University of Northern Colorado
This exhibition brings together 12 poets and 12 printmakers in a conversation between the visual arts and the written word. Based on a process of exchange and response, these works explore themes of domesticity, language and citizenship, natural and constructed worlds and the emotional ties that connect us.
“Whispers”
Linoleum Block Print on Reeves Paper
Paired Poem
Mushroom Wise by Uche Ogbuji
I asked the weaver bird this morning
Where do all creatures someday go?
My child inquired around the bend,
Now I too wish to know.
The weaver bird said: ask the winds—
They spy the world wide as they blow.
I asked the great dust devil maker,
Asked the sea breeze through its rain
Where do all creatures go and when
Do we catch up with them again?
The winds said: ask the leaves on trees—
They are the tongues through which we plain.
I asked the fetchers of the dew,
Asked the palm fronds at their dance
Where do all creatures go and who
Assigns each their own happenstance?
The leaves said: ask our brother roots—
They build for all things in advance.
I sat and grounded both my palms
I asked the python's spirit bones
Where do all creatures go and why
Does wisdom shrink in such unknowns?
The roots replied: ask the mushrooms—
It's these guide creatures to their homes.
I felt a fool but followed the roots
To query the nibblers at the null
The mushrooms said: come close
So we may whisper. Close now, and closer still.
And still—and so I knew—and still—
Where all creatures go, and shall go still.
October 4, 2022–February 12, 2023
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Inspired by the work of Albert and Louise Zahn, Kate created paper mache to scale replicas of all 24 threatened and endangered bird species in Wisconsin. She created a small educational zine and placed them in a nest made of driftwood from Lake Michigan. Above the nest, played audio recordings of birds and water from the lake.
Regional Responses to Albert and Louise Zahn installation view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2022. Kate Radloff, Endangered and Threatened Birds of Wisconsin, 2022; acrylic paint, cardboard, driftwood, glue, rocks, paper, wheat paste, tape, and recorded sound of Lake Michigan. Courtesy of the artist. Photos courtesy of John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
BIG INK - Hopkins Center for the Arts
Hopkins, Minnesota - April 2022
BIG INK - Columbus Cultural Arts Center
Columbus, OH - September 2022
“Heavy Hollow”
2021
This mask and costume was created to represent the deep feeling of loss and grief.
Artists Kate Radloff and Jesse Graves created to scale stencils of every bird in the state of Wisconsin that was cited by the National Audubon Society as threatened due to climate change. Each bird was printed twice, once in black soil and once in red river clay. These birds were stenciled onto a wall that runs along the bike path in Milwaukee, WI.
Your Actions Matter - 2014
You have now, you don’t need another time. - 2013
This interactive sound installation allowed participants to pickup a hand made mallet and use it to create sounds on the extruded ceramic tubes. These tubes were fired at various temperatures. This difference in temperature affected the clay in such a way that tubes of similar/the same size would not make the same sounds. While this installation looks like it would act as a musical scale, the firing experiment created an unexpected audio experience.