Catherine Czacki is an artist, writer, musician and educator of Polish/Tatar and American descent living in Northern New Mexico. Czacki’s practice incorporates ceramics, metal, paper mache, found objects, fabric, wood, eco resin, painting, drawing, critical theory, poetry, and sound. Czacki’s art has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and museums including Sculpture Center in Long Island City, JOAN in Los Angeles, Best Practice in San Diego, Prague Biennale, and Museo Centro De Arte Pepe Espaliú, Córdoba, Spain. Czacki’s poetry, essays, and academic writing have been published by Line Script Diary, Haunt Journal of Art at UC Irvine, and Interactions Journal of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. A full length book of Czacki’s poetry and images titled Creosote was published in 2019. Also in 2019, Czacki completed a PhD in Art History, Theory and Criticism (Concentration Art Practice) from University of California San Diego, having completed an MFA at Columbia University in Sculpture/New Genres in 2008, and a BFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003 - after 3 years of dual Painting and New Genres coursework. Prior to moving to Northern New Mexico, Czacki was an assistant professor of Art and Art History at Eastern New Mexico University (with an emphasis in Ceramics) and served as the primary technician for the ceramics lab and taught all ceramics course offerings. While at ENMU, Czacki also taught a Raku centered course at Clovis Community College. Czacki’s prior scholarly work intersected de/anti/post colonial studies with thinking through terminologies imposed on artists that can limit the understanding of artistic and social roles in communities, such as the term outsider. Additional fields of study are gardening, DIY repairing and building, herbalism, human, animal, plant, material relationships, organic communities, everyday histories or folklores and the diasporic and wide traveling evil eye which intersects with Czacki’s own familial past.