Katherine Ferrier is a queer poet, dancer, textile artist, teacher, and community organizer based in Rockland, Maine. Her research grows out of a deep practice of paying poetic attention to the world, and lives in the intersecting communities of movers, makers, writers and activists. Her work has been featured in Uppercase Magazine, The Knot, Contact Quarterly, and several poetry anthologies, including A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, and a self-published collection of photographs and poems about making, called Thread Says Stay.

A chronic instigator of collaborative and community actions, she creates generative situations for makers and thinkers to gather and share research. Before moving to Maine in 2016, she spent eight years in the White Mountains of NH, where she created and directed an international dance festival, managed a fine art gallery, designed innovative business trainings for artists, and taught a monthly ekphrastic writing workshop in galleries, inspired by the changing art exhibits. In 2016, she was named Arts Advocate of the Year by NH Citizens for the Arts, for her work on behalf of artists in the North Country. 

Katherine is a founding member of The Architects, an improvisation ensemble whose collaborative performance history spans over 30 years, with whom she continues to teach and perform. Since 2019 she has been a core member of the (stillness) collective, a place based interdisciplinary and improvisational collaborative making work along waterways in Midcoast Maine. 

For the last seven years, Katherine has directed the Medomak Fiberarts Retreat in Washington, ME, a nationally recognized gathering of fiber artists from around the world, where she teaches improvisational patchwork, slow stitching, wet felting, and writing for makers. She has most recently shown her textile work at The Ice House Gallery on North Haven, The Buoy Gallery in Kittery, and Speedwell Projects, Cove Street Arts, and SPACE Gallery in Portland. She earned her B.A. in Dance/Women’s Studies from Middlebury, and M.F.A. in Dance from Sarah Lawrence. She regularly teaches and performs throughout the US and abroad, and believes in patchwork as the radical practice of being patient, saying yes, and making space for everyone at the table.