Katherine Ferrier

Katherine weaves together more than 30 years of experience with dance, theatre, writing, visual art and collaborative interdisciplinary performance to bring students and audiences to life. Her teaching style is energetic, engaging and grounded in a deep practice of paying attention to the unique needs of each student and moment. She creates safe learning environments where students take risks, step bravely into the unknown, and practice embodying their full potential. Katherine Ferrier is a poet, dancer, maker, teacher, entrepreneur, curator, director and community organizer. Her research grows out of a deep practice of paying poetic attention to the world, and lives in the intersecting communities of movers, makers, writers and activists. She is a recent transplant to the coast of Maine, from the White Mountains of NH, where she directed an international dance festival, managed a fine art gallery, designed business trainings for artists and entrepreneurs for the Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network, and taught a monthly ekphrastic writing workshop inspired by the changing gallery exhibits. A chronic instigator of collaborative and community actions, she creates generative situations for makers and thinkers to gather and share research. In 2016, she was named the NH Arts Advocate of the Year by NH Citizens for the Arts for her work on behalf of North Country artists. Her spontaneous typewriter poetry practice, THREAD, has been featured in The Knot as a trend-setting new wedding service, and she can often be found during the summer writing custom poems at local farmers markets. She regularly teaches and performs throughout the US and abroad, and believes in patchwork as a radical practice of being patient, saying yes, and making space for everyone at the table. www.katherineferrier.net