Artist, Writer, Advocate

Katie Thompson is an intuitive artist, writer and advocate based outside of Charleston, SC. Her multidisciplinary work explores abstractions of space and self as a disabled woman living in the rural south and has been exhibited and published internationally. She is also the author of children's woodworking book Little Beaver Builds a Bed, and recently created a new podcast, Chronicles of a Dreamworker. Katie is a patient advocate for causes such as meningitis and disability awareness after having a spinal cord injury and contracting bacterial meningitis at 18. She is also the creator of the Women of Woodworking project and serves on the Board of Trustees for The Furniture Society. Katie is married to her husband, furniture maker Joseph Thompson, and they have two children together.