Catherine Schwalbe utilizes a variety of media and methods, making work from the human experience and our part in the natural and built worlds. Utilizing natural, found, and purchased materials, she creates works and facilitates events and interventions that address themes of connection with and participation in Nature, the arts and sciences, agriculture, and each other.

Put simply, Catherine makes works that she wishes existed. In her own words, “I do these things to please my own sense of self and need for a creative outlet. Sometimes I make the personal universal. I adhere to the Fluxus philosophy, ‘The distinguishing factors between art and life are irrelevant.’”