Kate is a performer, mixed media artist, and poet.She creates much of her work under the alias RosePetalPistol. More of her work is featured at www.rosepetalpistol.com.Art, personal interest, friends, and business have taken her to fifteen countries throughout East Asia, Europe, Central and South America, and other far corners of the world. The daughter of a poet and former priest, Kate grew up on a thoroughbred race horse and organic asparagus farm. She began equestrian training, acting, dancing, singing and language study as a child, with a nearly overwhelming passion for culture and the arts. Kate trained most intensely in classical ballet and danced throughout high school as a corps member of the Ann Arbor Civic Ballet Company. She then lived abroad, studying in Europe and Scandinavia before enrolling in at The George Washington University on a Women in Power Scholarship in the Women in the Arts program where she earned her liberal arts degree with a concentration in Italian.Although she moves easily between whimsy and absurdity, a major focus of her art is on universal themes of suffering/rebuilding & the rarely addressed pandemic of emotional abuse.More? www.rosepetalpistol.com Show less «