Bio

Kay Healy is an artist and educator originally from Staten Island, NY. Healy received a BA from Oberlin College, and an MFA from the University of the Arts in Book Arts and Printmaking. Healy is currently working on a forty-foot installation for the Philadelphia International Airport supported by The University of the Arts Faculty Enrichment Grant, and was recently named as a Fellow in the Center for Emerging Visual Artist Career Development Program. Healy was also the recipient of the Leeway Art and Social Change grant, which funded a yearlong body of work based on interviews of refugees from Southeast Asia.

Through her art Healy investigates themes of home, transience, and the search for stability in an ever-changing world. Healy works in many media including silkscreen and woodblock printing, books, fibers, installation, ceramics, and web-based art. She has a studio at 12th and Carpenter in Philadelphia.