Kat Morris https://www.katmorrismurals.com
Kat Morris is a full-time muralist and jewelry artist and has an impressive slate of accolades spanning decades. Kat has painted hundreds of school murals, church murals, commercial murals, and residential murals in eight states. Her styles range from cartoons to photo-realistic. Chattanooga murals include The Car Barn of Chattanooga, Rodizio Brazilian Steakhouse, Southside Social, Signal Mill, Park Place Restaurant, NoBaked Chattanooga, Battlefield Outdoors, and many schools in the Northwest Georgia area, and other local businesses. One of her favorite projects was a series of murals for a local school. A wall became a jungle, coral reef, and outer space. Students were engaged in the artmaking process, helping to finish the mural– their names are written across the bottom.
Contact Kat Morris at katmorrismurals@gmail.com
Sample Programs Offered
Program Type: Arts Curriculum
Program Description:
Going Big program will teach students how to upscale any project. Students will create their own paint shirt, while learning about the grid method of enlarging any piece of art to any other size, including wall size. Students will paint 4 projects: 4×5, 8×10, 16×20 and then 30×40, using the same artwork selected from options I will provide (things like cats, dogs, flowers, guitars). By the end of the program, students will receive a short guide, giving them tips on how to use the grid method for their project by using simple math, as well as a cool paint shirt of their own design, and 4 finished works of art.
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Program Type: Arts Curriculum
Program Description:
This class is for older students (8th grade – up) who have exhibited an interest in, and some level of talent in art. Students will select from presented topics to create their own mural, on a surface provided by or procured by their school and learn how to: 1) transfer their design to the wall. 2) learn some painting technique and tips/tricks for professional implementation. 3) Paint the design voted on by the class onto the provided surface.
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Program Type: Arts Curriculum
Program Description:
This class is for any students 8 – up. There is no special training required – almost every student enjoys poured acrylics because there is really no “right” or “wrong”.
Poured acrylics is an abstract painting technique that uses artistic acrylic paints, and an additive (pouring medium) that thins the paint to make it flow or pour.
Students will learn about the art form, about color theories, and have a chance to use 3-4 different method of this medium, and paint canvases, along with other surfaces – even make a pendant!
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