Cathy Locke holds a B.F.A. from Art Center College of Design and a M.F.A. from the Academy of Art University, both with honors. She currently teaches a variety of figurative courses in the graduate department at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Cathy has received accolades for her work from the Pastel Society of America, Art Directors Club of New York, Society of Illustrators in Los Angeles, Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, the Pastel Journal and Campaign Papers. She has received two Pastel 100 Awards placing her as one of the top 100 pastelists in the world. Her work is collected by civic institutions, colleges and universities,and private patrons across the United States, Canada and Europe. Every summer she lectures on both Russian and European art in Moscow and St. Petersburg; and she is currently writing a book on Russian art.
Cathy’s work has been recently featured in two museum shows, including a special honor where her work was hand selected from the Pastel Society of America's Annual Exhibition to show at the Butler Institute of American Art. The other was an exhibition at the Morris Graves Museum titled 'Motion and Meaning.'
Cathy Locke joined Pixels.com Licensing on July 6th, 2010.
