Katie Dell Kaufman is an award-winning collage and assemblage artist. She has exhibited her work in solo exhibits in Washington DC's Fraser Gallery and in group shows locally and nationally (see Exhibitions). Ms Kaufman teaches collage and assemblage at the Corcoran College of Art and Design where, since 1989, she has been on the faculty.

Ms Kaufman received her BA in sculpture from Bard College in 1979 where she studied with painter and MacArthur Fellow, Elizabeth Murray. She also studied painting with realist and Art in America critic, Joe Shannon, and drawing with internationally known figurative artist, Mary Frank, at the Corcoran College of Art and Design.

Ms Kaufman received her graduate degree from the University of Maryland in1985 and in 1987 was hired as an Admissions associate by the Corcoran College of Art and Design. She worked in art college administration for four years by which time she was Director of Admissions and also teaching in the Corcoran's Continuing Education program. She left Admissions in 1990 and since that time she has been working exclusively as an artist and teacher.

She has taught drawing, painting, mixed media and collage to elementary through undergraduate level students and in her capacity as artist-in-residence developed and created a sculpture with 500 students in the Maryland public schools. She has won cash awards for her assemblage work and her drawings have been published in a number of literary publications.

Ms Kaufman's exhibition at the Fraser Gallery,"Selective Memory : Drawings and Constructions by Katie Dell Kaufman", her work was described by The Washington Post's On Washington as:

"...original in the way that it delivers social observations filled with acute impressions of the discarded world of expendable items. She joins her drawing skills with a refined eye for assembly and sculpture to create "three dimensional drawings" that subtly become sculptures before the viewer's eyes. In (Kaufman's) work every object has a second hidden meaning exposed through her intelligent combinations of black and white drawings and found objects."

Katie Dell Kaufman works and resides with her family in Takoma Park, MD.