Biography
Rodriguez with Professor Tony Campbell at the UNO Gallery on St. Claude, 2018
Since 2008, Kathy Rodriguez has served as an instructor at the University of New Orleans, teaching courses in art history and studio art. From 2011-2018, she additionally served as Director of the UNO-St. Claude Gallery, curating exhibitions and scheduling programming for the off-campus presence of visual arts at UNO in the greater New Orleans community. She also served in a similar capacity for the on-campus UNO Fine Arts Gallery from 2018-2020. She has taught on UNO’s study abroad programs in Innsbruck, Austria, and Rome, Italy.
Rodriguez has written art criticism for New Orleans Art Review, and has published with Pelican Bomb, NOLA Defender, and a variety of museum catalogs. She currently maintains an art-critical blog. She is a founding member of TEN artists’ collective and is currently a member of Second Story Gallery Collective in New Orleans. A native of Metairie, Louisiana, Rodriguez is delighted to live and work in New Orleans with students, artists, and others in the wide swath of the city and beyond. She is now an Assistant Professor at UNO.