Kate Hooray Osmond is an American interdisciplinary artist based in Charleston, SC, whose work explores experiential acceptance. Kate’s artwork has been featured in Introspective Magazine, Hyperallergic, Art and Cake LA, Shoutout Atlanta, ArtMag, and Charleston Magazine. She exhibited her first solo museum show at the Franklin Burroughs/Simeon Chapin Art Museum in 2018 and curated her first exhibition, Prototype for a Landscape, at the City Gallery in 2021. She has been named the State Fellow for South Carolina (SouthArts Commission). Recently, her paintings have been included in the Biennial by the Center for Contemporary Art of South Carolina, the LaGrange Southeast Regional, and as a finalist for the CCA Prize. Kate created the virtual self-service CRISIS Art Residency during the Pandemic which hosted over 200 international creatives. Kate earned her MFA in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College of Art and her BA from Saint Mary's College of Maryland. Artist Statement:My work lives in conscious awareness and non-judgement and their momental balances in present contexts. I am working to decentralize my point of view and embrace all things as they come with love and acceptance. I recognize that my human nature resists change and that resistance contributes to distraction and suffering. In order to navigate a respectful and abundant path forward in the world, I must respect the world as it is now. Within my art and daily practice, I work to embrace all aspects of life as one thing; so there is no right or wrong, joy or sorrow, good or shame. In this way, everything is energy. If I can embrace this notion, even for a moment, I see that every side of an issue is valid, and all paths are possible. Everything happens in cycles. Generation will always follow death.