Kate Cheney

Kate Cheney: is a mixed media artist and poet whose work reflects her deep concern for the natural world. Her exhibit, “InterRelated: One Artist’s Response to Rachel Carson,” marked the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring, and opened in Pittsburgh at Chatham University in 2012. Kate’s artwork is in the collections of the Portland Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the University of New England, Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Colleges, and the New Britain Museum of American Art. Her poems have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Chrysalis, and Emrys Journal, among others. She brought poets and artists together on Monhegan for a collaborative show, and belongs to a long-running poetry group on the island. Their anthology of poems, Island Voices II was a Finalist for the 2015 Maine Literary Awards.