PenguinArt by Kate Garchinsky


Other creative endeavors…


  • Fall is approaching, and so the easel will be dusted and I will return to the wild for the peace, inspiration and wisdom it holds in its shapes and its colors. A group of old classmates from college and even high school plan to join me. Contact me if you live in the Greater Philadelphia Area and would like to join our informal, unpretentious group on an outing. Our first date is set for September 19 in the Brandywine River Valley.
  • ...my children's book. My manuscript won a Letter of Commendation in the SCBWI Barbara Karlin Grant competition (my name has been spelled incorrectly—twice—on that last link. I am "Cate Garchinsky," my parents just decided to complicate things early on by naming me Catherine with a "C" and shortening that to Kate with a "K," but I digress). My illustrations currently line my studio walls as black and white sketches of impatient herons. I will post updates of my progress on my blog.
  • Hanh is a disabled woman in Vietnam who was paralyzed in an accident at the age of 18. She was bedridden for the next eighteen years and cared for by her elderly parents. Hanh has found new hope and courage in a disabled women's workshop funded by the Lifestart Foundation, where she knits scarves and makes greeting cards with her new friends. She recently received a donation of an adaptive motorbike which allows her mobility that she previously never had.
  • The (no name) Art Group was founded by my high school classmate and a doer of very good deeds, Sherry Berger. The group coordinates [mostly] yearly art projects in which visual artists of all disciplines collaborate for charity. My contributions include two Memory Portraits benefiting the Lifestart Foundation and El Shadai Foster Home, a Bookmark for First Book Philadelphia, and a Peace Card for Cross-Cultural Solutions. Bukenya (left) is an orphan in Uganda. His mother died of AIDS and his father, who also has AIDS, is an alcoholic and abandoned his four children. Bukenya received this portrait in 2007. Donations to his foster home can be made through Friends of El Shadai.

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