2017 Alumna
Cottage: Waterfall
BIO: KATRINA GOLDSAITO is the author of the award-winning book The Sound of Silence, which Maria Popova called “An illustrated serenade to the art of listening to your inner voice amid the noise of modern life.” Based on a story from her Japanese father, The Sound of Silence was named a Book of the Year by NPR, People Magazine, Brain Pickings, The Boston Globe, the Huffington Post, and won the Northern California Book Award. As a travel journalist, she has written for National Geographic, NPR, the Christian Science Monitor, CNN-Go, and the Japan Times among others; and she was Vice-Editor of Tokyo Artbeat and a reporter for NHK-World.
Her art practice includes Tea Pourings with strangers at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco, Gen-Sou-En in Brooklyn. Her interview-based work, FishBird, on being mixed race, began at UnionDocs in Brooklyn, and was shared with the Brooklyn Historical Society and on NPR. Her art work has been supported by the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Berwick Institute, and the Earhart Foundation.
Her current work, ReachYou, a transmission from the future to help us be in the present, is supported by the City of Boston, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Live Arts Boston grant at the Boston Foundation, and the US Embassy and has been performed in Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic, with a free experimental prototype available for you to be a part of http://reachyou.space/ios.
Being a resident at Hedgebrook (Waterfall cottage!) shaped Katrina's art practices, and she returns again and again to that green, that spaciousness, that welcome, and that gentleness in her daily work.