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Kathie Foley-Meyer is an artist based in Los Angeles.  In addition to her mixed media artwork she has worked as a graphic designer on behalf of local theater companies, museums and other nonprofits. She received an MFA in Critical Studies from California Institute of the Arts and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. She studied graphic design in the UCLA Extension Design Communication Arts and Art Center at Night design programs, and neon fabrication at Pilchuck Glass School.

Her most recent projects were two interactive installations created for the Georgia T. McClay Friendship Center Gallery at the Pasadena Playhouse, in conjunction with the theatrical productions KISS ME, KATE and STOP KISS.  For the first production she created a visual and sound installation highlighting the history of black theatre, and for the second she created an indoor garden where visitors were encouraged to participate by sharing memories of their first or favorite kiss.

In 2013 she presented Project Bronzeville, a multidisciplinary collaboration inspired by a brief WWII-era period in Los Angeles history in the early 1940s, when the section of the city known as Little Tokyo became known as Bronzeville after the forced evacuation and internment of Japanese citizens, and the subsequent influx of African Americans fleeing the Jim Crow southern states and seeking opportunity.  Events included a show of her work at LA Artcore; a limited run of the play BRONZEVILLE written by Aaron Woolfolk and Tim Toyama by The Robey Theatre Company at Los Angeles Theatre Center; a symposium featuring scholars Dr. Hillary Jenks, Dr. Christopher Jimenez y West, Dr. Anthony Macias; and a jazz concert at the blue whale jazz club in Little Tokyo featuring the Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble, with special compositions by Atwood-Ferguson for his 17-piece ensemble.

In 2011 her work was exhibited in Artists Unite for Japan, a group show put together by Art from the ashes (AFTA) and the Japan Society in Culver City, California to benefit victims of the earthquake.  In 2012 her work was part of AFA’s Wellness Works, a group exhibition supporting the construction of a school-based health center at Hollywood High. Her sculpture “Brown People, Glass House” was part of the Museum of Neon Art’s Home Sweet Home exhibition at the 2012 Orange County Fair. Kathie served on the Museum of Neon Art (MONA) Board of Trustees from 2006-2012.  She currently serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE).  She also serves as a consultant and arts liaison for arts-related nonprofits and a financial services company.