Meet Our Teaching Artists
KATIE MACYSHYN
Katie Macyshyn (they/she) is an artiste and creative play practitioner. Their collaborative new media art uses camp theatricality to explore mental health, alienation, and reconciliation. Macyshyn holds a BFA, with a focus on performance art, from the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at George Washington University. They have been featured in various performance art festivals, DIY venues, and galleries such as Arlington Arts Center, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, VisArts, and Transformer. They are also an art instructor and songstrix who specializes in queering classrooms and the therapeutic benefits of creative play. Macyshyn is a regular at experimental performance venue Rhizome DC, DCPL's drag story time, and is a resident artist at Project Create, DC. She lives in Mount Rainier, MD and is from Toms River, NJ.