Kate McGraw

Kate McGraw's mother was an artist, and her father a musician.  She began drawing and playing piano before she started elementary school, and spent many childhood hours in forests hiking with a sketch pad and colored pencils, while living in a house filled with classical music. She studied piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music as a young child, and after her lessons would often go to the Cleveland Art Museum to sit and draw. She spent one year in the Netherlands as an exchange student, after graduating high school in the United States. While there she studied piano privately at the Arnhem Conservatory, and art at her host high school.  She spent many hours at museums throughout the Netherlands, England, and France.  She returned to the US and graduated from the Hartt School of Music, as a pianist and opera coach.  She later completed a PhD in clinical psychology, and served in the United States Air Force. She has attended workshops at the Florence Academy, Grand Central Academy, Boston Academy for Realist Art.  She has studied privately with Jesús Villareal, and finished the second and third year studies with Juliette Aristides and Richard Greathouse at the Aristides Atelier.