Box Set Contents:
 
All artworks are unique unless otherwise noted.
 
1. AUDRE LORDE, 2022, papercut risograph
 
2. The BURNOUT BOOK, 2023, is an anthology of 30 artists’ and writers’ works examining labor, activism, caretaking, living, grieving, missing, trying to make & trying to rest. The Burnout Book was risograph printed on an RZ 310 with maroon ink on a variant edition of papers, at Chute Studio in Oakland through CLEAR AS SCHMUTZ PRESS. It was publicly debuted via the MOONDOG & FRIENDS ART POP UP Newsstand takeover on NOV 5th, 2023 at the JC DECAUX KIOSK on 6th & MARKET ST. in San Francisco via CounterPulse Arts Kiosk public programming.
 
3. FREE FREE PALESTINE, 2024, laminate papercut book
 
4. NEVER AGAIN IS NOW, 2024, risograph, open edition
 
5. Papercut scraps risograph with found photo, 2021, open edition
 
6. SIX RIGHTS, risograph banner, 2024
 
7. STREET SHEET newspaaper, cover by Laster & Steph Kudisch as the collective, HEVRA KADISHA 2021
 
8. TIKKUN OLAM…, 2023, original papercut
 
9. WAITING GAME, 2022, laminated papercut with spray paint
 
10. WE CARRY PEOPLE WITH US, 2024, laminated papercut

Kate Laster is an artist, educator and critical historian from Alaska now based in Oakland.

Born in Anchorage (Dena’ina land) and raised all over Alaska from the arctic to the archipelago; a sense of place is key to her art practice as a diasporic jew. She received a Bachelor of Arts at Evergreen State College in 2015 and in 2019 she received an MA+MFA in History & Theory of Contemporary Art and Studio Art with an emphasis in Printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her thesis, GENTRIFICATION OF THE DEAD: How the Displacement Of Cemeteries Paved the Way For Rethinking Monuments In San Francisco, was a site specific praxis of art-making and research. She has worked with Woosh Kinaadeiyí, the SF Poster Syndicate, and the Coalition on Homelessness. As an educator, she focuses on accessibility and dismantling structural inequity in the arts through donation-based art history+theory classes that she creates original curriculums for. She was a full time studio assistant at Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program and currently works at NIAD Art Center as a studio facilitator. Laster has been an artist-in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, In Cahoots, Open Windows Cooperative, Cisco Home of the Brave, Kala Art Institute and at Pillow Fort Art Center. In 2023 her papercut practice was profiled in Hyperallergic. Working either monumentally or intimately small, her practice is connected to the weight of the past, human migration and the effervescent exhaustion of everyday love.