Kat Knutsen

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Kat Knutsen Artist, Art professor & Creative gathering coordinator. Kat works with traditional oil painting, mural design, drawing and animation.

As an artist Kat Knutsen uses her life experience and passion for learning works to create visual art designs.

Going over cross contour with the class today.
10/20/2026

Going over cross contour with the class today.

Refreshing the studio energy with some playful and exploratory drawing
10/16/2026

Refreshing the studio energy with some playful and exploratory drawing

10/16/2026

Organizing my studio a bit for the next batch of art and creative events 🥰

In the final stages of this painting, I’ve been reflecting on how decisions driven by enormous profits can have conseque...
10/16/2026

In the final stages of this painting, I’ve been reflecting on how decisions driven by enormous profits can have consequences that ripple across generations. War is a large profiting machine.

History reminds us how often ordinary people inherit the suffering caused by an oligarch’s pursuit of wealth, power, and control.

But we have a choice in how we move forward.

We have far more to gain by standing together than by fighting amongst ourselves.

Perhaps the greatest threat to those who profit from division is our willingness to recognize the shared humanity within our cultural differences.

The more I learn about history, the more I realize how deeply the past continues to shape our present.Working on this pa...
10/13/2026

The more I learn about history, the more I realize how deeply the past continues to shape our present.

Working on this painting has taken me down a path of discovery, from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to the far-reaching consequences of imperialism, colonialism, and the political decisions made generations before us.

What has struck me most is how the ambitions of powerful institutions can ripple across centuries, shaping borders, identities, conflicts, and the lives of people who had no voice in those decisions.

And yet, history isn’t just something that happened to us. It’s something we continue to participate in.

We inherit the consequences of decisions we never made, but we still have a choice in how we respond to them.

We can perpetuate division, or we can recognize our shared humanity. We can allow fear and resentment to shape the future, or we can choose compassion, understanding, and solidarity.

In this painting, the figures coming together represent that possibility. Not the erasure of history or our differences, but the recognition that peace requires us to see one another as human beings first.

The fallen figures below serve as a reminder of the human cost of greed and the pursuit of power.

I’m still learning, still painting, and still reflecting on the complicated history that brought us here.

But one thought continues to guide this work:

We cannot rewrite the past, but we can refuse to repeat its cruelties.

And perhaps that is where real change begins. 🕊️

TheSirenScene

Demo-ing a quick multi-figure sketch for drawing students today. We were talking about using scale and perspective to pl...
10/08/2026

Demo-ing a quick multi-figure sketch for drawing students today. We were talking about using scale and perspective to place figures in a basic setting.

Drawing alongside my students as they take their first unit review. We’re learning about thumbnail designs, scaling up w...
10/07/2026

Drawing alongside my students as they take their first unit review. We’re learning about thumbnail designs, scaling up with the natural grid, and capturing basic forms.

Playing with shapes while reading the news
10/02/2026

Playing with shapes while reading the news

Having fun drawing squirrels
09/30/2026

Having fun drawing squirrels

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