Catherine Holladay

A graduate of the University of Florida and La Sorbonne, Catherine Demsky Holladay has traveled the world for inspiration in design and photography.

She has studied, apprenticed and worked with Pulitzer-prize winning photographers, Academy Award-winning directors and producers and industry-leading designers.

Following extensive travel and years of working in the film, design and corporate worlds, Catherine fell into a teaching position with the software development and training company she worked for as a Graphic Designer. Finding teaching suited her personality and talents, she went on to develop additional training programs for the institute, assisting in the development of an inspection process and key software program adopted by the insurance industry as the standard and taught that process and software program to more than 1,000 inspectors and 1,500 insurance agents and executives over a two year period. Her successes in the company and the industry took her from the company's Graphic Designer to its Vice President of Operations.

Realizing her love for teaching was insatiable, she decided to give up the corporate world and return to school to pursue an education degree coupled with her lifelong passion for art and art history. She irecently graduated from the University of Florida with a Master of Arts in Art Education.

Catherine’s research focuses on developing meaningful connections to art through cultural experiences, both in the classroom and in alternative settings such as museums and after school programs. She is interested in the preservation of artistic cultural traditions through cross-cultural and multi-generational identity development. She is also interested in technology applications used to foster connections in this preservation and discovery process. In addition to preserving these artistic cultural traditions and developing personal identities through standard means,

In addition to an educator and researcher, Catherine sees herself as an artist. Her approach to her own art is reflected through the representation of cultural identity-based topics such as stereotypes, celebrations, and more.

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