Katherine Youtz

Katherine Clyde Youtz

Katherine is a graduate of Beloit College with additional studies at Ohio State University. During her long working career she managed the Chicago office of Beloit College, managed a women's fashion store, was assistant buyer and manager of an infants and children's apparel shop, was a vocational counselor involved in re-educating and retraining the disable for gainful employment which let to becoming a Vocational expert in the Federal courts and was listed in "Who's Who in the Midwest".

Living in the western suburbs of Chicago until 1967, she had the opportunity to study art at the Chicago Art Institute. The American Academy of Art and the Vogue School of Art. Katherine raised her family in Washington, Ohio. In 1996 Katherine and her husband Robert moved to Black Mountain, North Carolina and spend part of each year in Three Lakes, Wisconsin.

During her career she also spent twelve years as an architectural draftsman and five years as a commercial artist. For many years she designed clothing, utilizing her weaving, knitting and tailoring talents. Since her retirement in 1984 she has devoted considerable time to painting in water colors, acrylic and colored pencil. Most of her work is realistic, some of it is abstract but both styles show her awareness of balance, design and color, expressing what she sees around her.

Both her weaving and her paintings have received many awards. Katherine has had many one-person exhibits in banks, private industry, libraries and galleries, as well as showing her work with other artists in art guild or art league membership of juried shows. She has paintings in private collection is Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, California, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina.

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