Kate Morrick is a first-generation Cuban-American fiber artist and sculptor residing in Chicago, Illinois.  Her research explores public affect as it relates to despair, despondency, and dejection.  She is fascinated by how the human experience of these emotions has changed over time as well as how these emotions are perceived differently both around the world as well as culturally.  Drawing inspiration from a wide variety of sources including the fields of acoustics, affect theory, Critical Theory, dromology, self-help fad culture, psychopathology, and religious studies, Morrick explores the depressed spirit from within as well as outside the Western medical model.

Morrick earned her B.S. in Textile and Apparel Design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and A.A.S. from the Fashion Institute of Technology.  She has held numerous Fabric Research and Development roles for prominent fashion houses in New York City specializing in sustainable and artisanal production.  Morrick is currently an M.F.A. candidate in the Fiber and Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she attends as a recipient of the prestigious New Artist Society Scholarship award.  She is an active Guest Lecturer and Instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the School of Human Ecology and Art Department.