Catherine Mellinger (she/they) is an Expressive Arts Therapist (ExAT), Perinatal Mental Health Therapist (CC-PMH), mixed media collage artist, inter-arts artist, curator, academic and community embedded arts facilitator. Their mixed media works have been exhibited across Turtle Island and published Internationally.
Originally from land belonging to Treaty 6 (Colonially named Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) she currently lives and works in what is colonially named Waterloo, land included in the Haldimand Tract and belonging to the Neutral, Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples.
Catherine identifies as a queer femme artist living with invisible disabilities.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
As an academic, I am interested in examining how creative processes can function as transformative spaces in which conventional boundaries between self, environment, embodiment, consciousness, and human/non-human relationships become destabilized and reconfigured. Drawing from interdisciplinary perspectives in phenomenology, poiesis, eco-spirituality, poly aesthetics, feminist and inter-sectional theories, I am keen to explore how artistic engagement may cultivate altered modes of perception, ecological awareness, and relational ways of knowing across human and more-than-human worlds.