An interview with
Catya Plate Catya Plate, born in Barcelona, Spain, is a New York City-based artist working in painting, drawing, sculpture and film. Raised in Germany, she attended the Werkkunstschule, Köln, before coming to New York in 1987 through a Fulbright Scholarship for Fine Arts. She has been exhibiting regularly and internationally since the mid-1980's and her work can be found in many public and private collections worldwide, including the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York City. In 1996 she received an Artist in the Marketplace award from the Bronx Museum of the Arts and in 2008 her work was selected for permanent inclusion in the Art Base of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. In 2009, she created Clothespin Freak Productions to bring her “Clothespin Freaks” characters to life through award-winning stop-mo-
tion animation short films. In 2012, her animated short short film, "The Reading", was awarded Best Animated Film at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival and received an Outstanding Achievement Award for Experimental Film at the Williamsburg Interna-tional Film Festival. “Hanging By A Thread”, her most recent short film, had its World Premiere in September at the 13th Annual Nevada City Film Festival in California where it won the Jury Prize for BEST ANIMATED SHORT. “Hanging By A Thread” continues its rounds in the film festival circuit with an official selection at the Oscar-qualifying 22nd Annual St. Louis International Film Festival, MO,(November 1424, 2013), the StopTrik International Film Festival (October 25-27, 2013) in Niepolomice, Poland and the 19th Annual Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, NC.
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