Katina Papson is an interdisciplinary artist/educator/curator who has received an MFA from the California College of the Arts.  She also received a double degree BFA in Computer Design and Photography as well as in K-12 Arts Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Papson is a strong advocate for youth and community arts. She has taught, organized and writen grants for a non-profit youth arts organization called Youth Action Coalition from 1999 until 2003.  This work led into five years of teaching photography, visual art, and social justice performance at Amherst Regional High School in Amherst, Massachusetts.  During this time, Papson started after-school programs at the high school and advised the class of 2005.  From 2002 until 2005, Papson worked as Administrative Director for Deerfield Academy Summer Arts Camp, an alternative interdisciplinary summer arts camp for youth, ages 11 to 16.

In 2005, she moved to San Francisco to pursue her personal artwork.  Since moving to California, Papson has been hired by World Savvy as their Program Associate for the Global Youth Media & Arts Program.  World Savvy is an educational non-profit whose mission is to educate and engage youth in community and world affairs.

Katina Papson’s choices of media range from photography to video, performance to social practice as well as pirate radio. With great interest in social/relational art forms, she creates works that eliminate laws of profit by replacing them with free interchanges creating open-to-the-public collaborations. Papson was born and raised in the Bronx, New York and currently lives in San Francisco, California.