Kate Gilbert cultivates the critical role the arts and artists play in transforming our cities, our relationships, and ourselves. These investigations manifest in artwork, a curatorial practice, and dedication to expanding the field of public art.
As an artist and cultural worker, Gilbert strives to facilitate joy and spontaneity and to drive public appreciation of contemporary art practices. Gilbert, the product of generations of creatives who didn't dare call themselves artists, cites her over-active childhood imagination and
early exposure to large-scale sculpture as critical factors in her creative investigations. As a natural collaborator and problem solver, her studio practice morphed into a
curatorial consulting practice for public art initiatives and in 2015, the founding of the Boston public art non-profit
Now and There where she has developed a
Public Art Accelerator.
Gilbert is a graduate of
Connecticut College and earned her MFA from the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She is the 2020 recipient of NEFA’s
Newell Flather Award for Leadership in Public Art, for curation and her artwork is in the Fidelity Corporate Art Collection as well as many Boston households thanks to her participatory workshops. Gilbert lives and works in Boston, MA with her husband and escapes to a
small studio in East Boston to keep her artistic practice alive. Even if only on Sundays.
