Kate Dannessa

Kate Dannessa is a Providence-based artist, designer and educator. She received her BFA in Industrial Design from RISD and an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at NYU. Since earning her BFA, she has worked for a variety of designers and high-end fabricators in furniture, hardware and lighting. Her studio practice is a space for exploration and focuses on sculptural objects and furniture. Deeply engaged in experimentation, she explores nonlinear methods and their importance to the creative process.

Kate is also a designer with Altimeter Design Group, where she works on projects ranging from public installations to the creation of speculative artifacts, as well as workshop development and facilitation. Whether personal, educational or client-related, each project she takes on centers materiality as a means to enhance experience. Her current research is in embodied cognition and objects as a form of language, provocation and mechanism of understanding. Kate has taught in the Industrial Design departments at RISD and Parsons.