NWLA Artists Directory

Artist's Statement

I'm a big

Fat

Tuesday

Louisiana artist

who steeps my Viking bones

in magic

by stabbing together

rust bits

and fabric pieces

so I can stitch

charms that succuss

strong luck and protection.

Resume

In 2010 Kathryn Usher was recognized by UK art scholar Dr. Melissa Westbrook as one of the artists in the Neo-Outsider art movement.

Westbrook writes, "Actively seeking interaction through social media, Kathryn Usher is an artist and video-maker working and residing in Shreveport, Louisiana (USA). Influenced by popular culture, voodoo and politics, Kathryn creates pieces from traditional materials such as acrylics, objects (including bottles, toilet paper rolls and tea bags) and less tactile mediums such as digital art. The purpose of her art is to question not why, but rather why not."

In 2010, Usher was also selected to be the cover artist for the Louisiana Swamp Stomp CD, a project of the Northern Louisiana Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Foundation. She was also selected to be a member of the National Endowment of the Arts/Shreveport Regional Arts Council Willie Middlebrook project in 1997.

In the early 1990's, Usher was juried into the Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist Roster.

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Usher says she "Found bliss early. It was reading or thinking in the spread out trunk of a pink flowered mimosa tree in our front yard. I made my freest art back then. When I was a little kid alone in my room, I danced to music from a tiny record player. I had a built up platform in the bottom of my closet, so I would push the clothes back on either side and dance away in funky costumes I found around the house. Now when I create art, I am seeking to go back to my bliss." says Usher.

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