Katherine Gressel (she/her) has over 15 years of experience curating site-specific and participatory art in nontraditional spaces, with a focus on contemporary social justice and environmental issues. This includes developing an original contemporary art program for Brooklyn's Old Stone House & Washington Park (OSH), where she oversees artists and guest curators realizing ambitious solo projects and thematic group shows responding to the history and environment of this historic house and local park.
Gressel is also currently the inaugural Arts & Exhibits Coordinator at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, helping develop new public art initiatives using art to inspire environmental stewardship and promote scientific discovery. She has been a member of the Mother Creatrix Collective since 2024, co-organizing exhibitions and events exploring the intersection of art and caregiving. She is currently partnering with the organization the ART of Infertility on a series of exhibitions addressing infertility and reproductive rights.
Gressel has also curated and produced artist projects for Arts Gowanus, Established Gallery, Smack Mellon, FIGMENT, No Longer Empty, St. Francis College, and Brooklyn Historical Society. She was the 2016 NARS Foundation emerging curator and an Independent Curators International (ICI) 2015 Curatorial Intensive participant. Her work has been recognized by The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Time Out NY, and CBS News. She has written and presented on art and social impact for Americans for the Arts, Public Art Dialogue, and Dickinson College's Clarke Forum, among others. She also served as programs manager at Smack Mellon Gallery from 2010-2014, and has worked and consulted for diverse nonprofits. Gressel has a B.A. in art from Yale and M.A. in arts administration from Columbia.
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