kate robinson beckwith

is an intermedia artist, writer, publisher, and community arts organizer living in Kingston, NY. Her work seeks to ask questions about the structures in which we construct our identities and the way these structures come to bear upon our physical bodies, as well as our perceptions of the world around us. Kate started as a thinker and writer whose material obsessions eventually led her to the letterpress studio where she could take a heady engagement with words into the material realm. The processes involved with manifesting a printed work in the world have become a deep and abiding fascination that touches on the relationship of bodies to self-representation, capitalism, and labor.

notable positions

Publisher, Art Director, Container, presently
Operations Director, Type Network, 2021-present
Publisher, Art Director, Dogpark Collective, 2018-2023
Curator, Sponge, 2017-2020
Co-founder and Lead Performer, The Third Thing, 2014-2018
Project Manager, Material Print Machine, 2014-2016
Collections Associate, Letterform Archive, 2014-2016
Book Art Teaching Fellow, Mills College, 2014
Co-founder and Curator, Manifest Reading Series, 2011-2014