Katie Hagen is a Savannah-based artist and designer. Her practice encompasses site-specific art installations and delightful interventions in the built environment – designs that activate space and transform surface with color, light and the impression of movement.

Katie combines innovative applications of traditional textile processes with digital fabrication methods to evoke our universal joy response to the aesthetics that have long helped humans to flourish. Inspired by the natural world’s dynamic skies and undulating landscapes, she mimics their gradients and textures with natural dyes and manipulated paper and fabric.

Katie’s work has been exhibited at the Jepson Center’s 2024 Pulse Festival in Savannah, Ga., and is part of the SCAD permanent collection, currently installed at a student residence in Atlanta. Her solo M.F.A. thesis show, Delight: Enlivening Space and Surface with Color, Light and Movement, was on view at Gallery 2424 in Savannah, Ga., in November 2023.

Katie received an M.F.A. in Fibers and an M.A. in Production Design from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in 2023. She previously studied graphic design at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and received a B.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University.