ABOUT

Kathy Kovosi is a multimedia artist and secondary school art, media, and ELL/ESL teacher in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Particularly, Windsor, Ontario, is directly across the river from Detroit, Michigan.

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The themes of her work are inspired by the amazing people she has met, the stories they have shared, the wondrous natural world, our curious human nature, books read, and the cultures explored in the magical places she has lived across Canada and around the world. 

She began her postsecondary education in Natural Sciences at UWindsor long, long ago.  After an 8-year break living, exploring, working, and most of all surfing on Vancouver Island, BC, she started a Visual Arts Diploma at Camosun College in Victoria, BC.  Realizing that making art was her true path and a way to fuel her curiosity about all things, she moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she completed her Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts at NSCAD University. After graduation, she stayed in Halifax, surfing, working, and exploring the coastlines for 4 years before returning to the vortex of Windsor, Ontario. The impetus for returning to Windsor was to complete a B.Education degree, which she hoped would fuel her artmaking while inspiring others to be creative.  This degree provided an opportunity to continue her travels in and outside of the classroom. 

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After graduation, she moved to Gwangju, Korea, where she taught at a small Hagwon for half a year.  Due to a hostile situation and terrible illness (see future blog posts for further details), she moved to Kaohsiung, Taiwan, with the help of some amazing people.  After working piecemeal jobs for about 2 months, she attained a position as a public school teacher at a local school called Wufu Goshao and stayed in Taiwan for 2 amazing years. Upon being offered a position as Art, Media, and ESL Secondary School Teacher at a Private International school in Windsor, Ontario, she returned home with her 2 adopted furbabies, LaiFUU and LaMei, she continued teaching International students IB, AP, and Ontario Curriculum art, media, and ESL for 11 years before the Illness hit again and COVID struck silence across the globe.  Due to a rare disease for which surgery was not possible during lockdown, she was voluntarily laid off from the school.  Once the veil of fear started to lift, there was an opportunity to receive the required surgery that would allow her to breathe, talk, and eat freely again. Back to good health, she applied to work in the public secondary school system and, grabbing the chance to work with a diverse range of students, she became a substitute teacher in her specialty, art, media, and ELL. 

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Now working as a substitute teacher, she has had a greater opportunity to finally use her wee home as a studio for creating the artwork she has always wanted to create. Although currently not able to travel as much, the classroom is a place where diversity, culture, kindness, and creativity with our amazing youth can take place. Outside of school, the lakes, forests, wildlife, and natural spaces rejuvenate and inspire.  There seems to be never enough time to explore and bring to fruition all of the ideas that come to mind.