Get to know: Katie Creyts

Get to know more about Katie Creyts' background and interests through her answers to these questions.

Position: Assistant professor of art

Started at Whitworth: 2008-2009 (This is her first year)

Age: 37

Originally from: Creyts grew up in a suburb outside of Chicago after being born in New York state. She attended high school outside of Philadelphia.

Undergraduate degree: Tyler School of Art at Temple University

Graduate degree: Illinois State University

Before Whitworth:
She worked in a studio for 10 years and then went to graduate school at Illinois State in glass and sculpture.

Creyts continued to work with glass, showing her work and teaching kids and adults art and glass blowing. She taught at the University of Wisconsin and was searching for jobs when she came across Whitworth.

Classes she teaches:
-Design II (alternating semesters)
-Mixed Media
-Fused Glass
-Sculpture

Favorite course:
"I thought teaching Sculpture and Design II would be hardest for me," Creyts said.

The other forms she does on her own, but she has found the two classes to be most interesting in terms of working with the students.

She said she appreciates the reactions students have in her Fused Glass class.

"Whenever I open the kiln, I get great reactions from students," Creyts said.

If you weren't a teacher,  you would be...
"I would be an artist and also would work as a professional glass blower," Creyts said.

Favorite food:
"I love everything. I'd have to say lobster Maine, but it has to be Maine," Creyts said.

Favorite author or book:
"I know Einstein said fairy tales. I feel the same way. A good book of German folk tales," Creyts said.

Her pick: "Transformations" by Anne Sexton

Her advice to students: "Burning Your Boats: the Collected Short Stories" by Angela Carter

Most influential person in your life:
Creyts' most influential person is her older sister, Maria, also an artist.

"Her work as an artist kind of opened up how to do it for me, not just in the mechanics but how to be dauntless," Creyts said.

Web site: www.katiecreyts.com

Faculty page:

http://www.whitworth.edu/academic/faculty/index.aspx?username=kcreyts

Contact Jasmine Linabary at jasmine.linabary@whitworthian.com.

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