Kate Chassner is a mixed media artist using found images and home photos to create collages based in Asheville, North Carolina. She is an elementary and middle school art teacher and strives to have an experimental classroom that provides space for students to push their boundaries and uplift their creative energy. She attended Florida State University where she earned her BA in Art History in 2007. After spending a few years in New Orleans she moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains, started a family and received her MFA at Western Carolina University in 2022. Kate has won grants and scholarships for her art and has shown in galleries across the US Southeast. Her current work is an exploration of the use of collage to portray memories as a way of connecting narratives and overlapping stories. She is curious about how uncanny shared experiences can act as a means to create connections and offer space for reflection.