kathy wu
January 19, 2026
kathy wu - cross disciplinary artist, poet and author
Our 2026 Visiting Artist will be at Central School Project Jan 19- 28
kathy wu - cross disciplinary artist, poet and author of She Will Last as Long as Stones (2025)
About the Artist
kathy wu is a Chinese–American artist, poet, and designer living in Providence, Rhode Island, on Narragansett land. She works across digital media, fiber, book arts, and language to pull at histories of science and technology. Her work has appeared via The New School, Dialogist, Rain Taxi, NatBrut, and Tilted House, and has been anthologized by Fonograf Editions and Nightboat Books. She has been awarded fine arts residencies at Blue Mountain Center, Black Mountain College Museum, and Pao Arts Center. She currently teaches full-time at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and holds an MFA from Brown University’s Literary Arts program.
Poetry Reading at the Courtyard
Date and time TO BE ANNOUNCED
Workshop:
Date and time details TBA
With the community: We will co - create a publication (zine)
CSP would love to have high school and College students participate in this Free 90 minute workshop with Kathy!
Participants will co-create a publication about the geologic memory of Southern Arizona while growing STEAM skills through poetry and analog media.
This workshop collab will be a 90-minute and free-to-attend offering the following:
-Stories about the social and industrial role of copper throughout time, e.g. core memory rope in the 1960s, or copper IUDs in ancient times through present
- A poetry writing prompt about place, then an additional prompt which shapes those poems into spatial poems.
-A way to use simple hardware together to create a simple circuit through our book with MaKey MaKey
MaKey MaKey is a hardware device which plugs into laptop computers and allows people with no engineering experience to make a simple circuit using their body, conductive material, and their computer. kathy is hoping to use copper thread and copper tape to “activate” the zines, which can allow them to play sound when touching the ground—or holding hands—while also touching the computer.
kathy's new book She Will Last as Long as Stones is available from Wendy's Subway Publishing
