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(American) Kathi is an artist, surface designer, and creative entrepreneur living on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She’s been a professional artist for over 35 years, expressing her love of color, beauty, and design using a variety of media, including digital art, scratchboard, painting, collage, mixed media, photography, and textiles. Kathi has successfully sold her art and prints over the years, but had always dreamed of seeing her designs on everyday products. Eight years ago she started KatCo Creations to turn this dream into a reality. She has created a unique line of coastal themed home goods, apparel and accessories and sells these products at local events, wholesale to boutique stores, and in her KatCo Creations Online Store. Kathi’s art career began as an apprentice and then master printer in one of Los Angeles’ foremost printmaking and etching studios in the 1980s. This supportive, creative environment and her working relationship with some of Southern California’s most successful artists inspired her to pursue her own art. In addition to being a master fine art printmaker, she has had exclusive contracts for her abstract work, collaboration partnerships with art dealers and distributors, exhibitions in numerous shows, and the opportunity to run a successful art gallery. A graduate of UCLA with a degree in history and French, Kathi is also an accomplished drummer and singer with a degree in percussion from the Grove School of Music. She has successfully managed dual careers in art and music for many years. She performs regularly with her husband – guitarist, singer, songwriter Robert Emmet Dunlap.