Gallery 96

Kathi Posliff was born in Stratford, Ontario. In 1972 she graduated from the Special Arts Program at H.B. Beal Secondary School in London, Ontario. It was a great introduction to a wide variety of media and she has continued to make and show artwork ever since. She later took classes at The Three Schools of Art in Toronto and in 1984 and 1985 was a participant in the Winter Cycle of the Banff Centre's Fibre Program where she learned papermaking. In 1980 she joined Gallery 96, now an artists' run centre in Stratford. She has exhibited work in many shows in the Stratford area, both group and solo, as well as in Banff, the Cartwright Street Gallery in Vancouver, Plug-In Gallery in Winnipeg, and most recently Applause Fine Audio and Art in Toronto. Three of her pieces have been published as covers for books of short stories. The artwork is usually figurative with an autobiographical reference and sometimes includes a sculptural element.

In 1977 she started to work at the Stratford Festival as a seamstress, and later worked in different areas including dyeing, costume painting, and currently costume decorating and bijoux. She has been the recipient of three Guthrie Awards over the years. She has also worked at a number of theatres across this country and in the U.S. One of the more fun projects was being a part of the team doing dyeing and costume painting for the Toronto and L.A. productions of The Lion King. The work in theatre seems to compliment the art work, and vice-versa.

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