Katie McCall is a New Orleans artist and elementary art educator whose work is driven by a passion for up-cycling and an exploration of play and refinement. Her creative journey in the BA of Interior Design from The University of Louisiana at Lafayette was rooted in the fundamental teachings of the Bauhaus School of Design. The curriculum highlighted art and craftsmanship, conceptual design, form and function. Initial projects were centered around utilizing discarded and disregarded objects, to transform their meaning and purpose. This experience cultivated her use of found materials as canvases for painting and collage. Katie’s bodies of work vary based on the texture of her current preferred medium. Exploring themes of pattern, color blocking, nature, playful characters, cute snacks, and local insects; these subjects present themselves within her work through an unconventionally modern lens. Whether transforming found objects, such as soda cans or wearable art weavings, the artworks enjoy a tactile sensibility and a welcoming accessibility. Her collections of surreal Monster Skateboards, embroidered Garden Ghosts, meticulously painted miniature patterns, and realistic female faces surrounded by a kaleidoscope of color on smashed cans, all emphasize detail and authenticity. As a teacher and an artist, Katie aims her work to provoke and inspire the realm of creative possibility. She cultivates her eye, and her viewers, to find beauty in the mundane.