K.S. (Kathy) Ernst

K.S. Ernst

K.S. Ernst has been writing poetry and making art for over 40 years; a visual poet, she is also well-known in the digital arts and fine arts communities. Ernst’s work is sculpture, multimedia, works on paper, artists’ books, painting, fiber arts, and digital.

K.S. Ernst has shown her work nationally and internationally including shows at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the Berkeley Art Center, Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art, The Center for Book Arts, Rutgers University, and galleries like The Nave Gallery, to name just a few. Her art is included in many important art collections including Ohio State University Collection of Avant Garde and Experimental Writing, The Museum of Modern Art in NYC, The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and the Beinecke Library’s American Literature Collection at Yale University, as well as significant private collections including the renowned The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry.

K.S. Ernst’s work has been published extensively in books and magazines including Poetry magazine, Writing to Be Seen, edited by Bob Grumman and Crag Hill, The Last Vispo Anthology edited by Crag Hill and Nico Vassilakis, and her work was featured in Photo Techniques magazine. Ernst has also participated in artist residencies, lectures, and in performances with the Be Blank Consort. K.S. Ernst creatively and fiscally manages Press Me Close where she publishes books, postcards, and T-shirts of visual poetry. K.S. (Kathy) Ernst lives in New Jersey.

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http://www.ksernst.com/

http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/ernst/ernst.htm

http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/archives/cat_ernst_ks.html

http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/mr/so-ch.htm