Kathryn Polk, (b.1952, Memphis, Tennessee) is a southern-born artist whose personal life has been a major influence on her body of work. With her love of drawing, she makes daily entries into her sketchbook to help develop figurative imagery and narrative content that investigates the various paths of women’s lives.

She studied Fine Art at the Memphis Academy of Art and The University of Memphis. In 2002, she began working with traditional stone lithography. Polk’s lithographs can be found in permanent print collections throughout the world such as Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Sado Print Museum (Japan), The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), The National Academy of Fine Arts (Hangzhou, China), The University of Auckland (New Zealand), Yonsei University Wonju Campus (Korea), The University of Wales (UK). Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art (France), The Denver Art Museum (Colorado), The University of Arizona Museum of Art, The University of California-Davis/Gorman Museum, Proyecto ‘Ace (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Prints & Photographs Division/Library of Congress (Washington, DC), Janet Turner Print Museum (Chico), Jules Heller Print Study Room/Arizona State University Art Museum, The Block Museum/Northwestern University, Spencer Collection/The New York Public Library.

Kathryn Polk is co-owner of L VIS Press, a print studio dedicated to the development of stone lithography techniques as well as other printmaking practices. L VIS Press recently relocated from Arizona to Indiana.

Kathryn working on a stone for an in-residence edition.