Artists Kathryn Blommel
SPRING 2026 RESIDENT · MAR – MAY
Kathryn Blommel
Charcoal & graphite
Kathryn Blommel is a Minneapolis-based artist who works primarily in charcoal and graphite, creating surreal, dreamlike drawings centered on the female form. She studied fine art at the University of Minnesota and joined Manchester AIR at The Factory on Willow in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the Spring 2026 session.
About the work
Blommel builds imagined environments around her figures to explore how space relates to the structures of women’s social identities. Her drawings favor sincere, introspective moments, presenting women not as objects to be looked at but as people shaped by their experiences. Alongside her large-scale drawings, she also paints in oil.
Selected highlights
Work published in the Harvard Undergraduate Art History Journal
BFA studies, University of Minnesota
