Kate Weingart’s Art Biography

Kate Weingart is a visual artist whose practice draws on a lifetime of scholarship, activism, and spiritual inquiry. Based in Daytona Beach, she creates layered, symbolically rich paintings and clay sculptures that explore Neolithic and Paleolithic goddess cultures, ecological consciousness, the inner life of the psyche, and the commodification within the culture industry. Her art is influenced by Jungian psychology, Abstract Expressionism, and European automatism, synthesizing her style of figuration and abstraction with a tactile, focused, Zen meditative process.

Weingart’s academic foundation includes a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Miami (1989), an M.A. in Labor Studies from Rutgers University (1976), and a B.A. in Anthropology from Penn State (1972). She taught at Purdue University from 1990 to 2006, retiring as Professor Emeritus. Prior to that, she served as a union representative and educator in cities across the U.S., advocating for worker rights and social justice. Her work in labor and academia deeply informs her artistic lens, which examines the intersection of social structures and the economic marketplace, gender, nature, and human expression. Most recently she has been absorbed with the theoretical art criticism by Rosalind Krauss and the Philosophy of Aesthetics by Theodore Adorno. This has provided a new lens to give her insights into her work as an artist.

Following her academic career, Weingart turned more fully to the visual arts. From 2008 to 2023, she trained and served as an art docent at the Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach), Appleton Museum (Ocala), and Museum of Arts and Sciences (Daytona Beach). These experiences expanded her knowledge of art history and gave her direction in her own art-making journey. Since 2011, after her husband passed away, Kate began painting and she started working with clay around 2016, after her cancer diagnosis. Her clay sculptures evoke ancient goddess forms with a modern sensibility, while her paintings reflect a deeply intuitive exploration of identity, myth, and emotional landscapes.

Weingart has delivered public lectures on art history topics such as Women and Art, History of Landscape Painting, The Language of the Goddess, and Beauty in Our Own Image at institutions including the African American Museum of DeLand, the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Florida Landscape Art, and regional art associations.

Her artwork has received increasing recognition, including:

2022 – First Place, Halifax Palette and Brush Club

2023 – Honorable Mention Award, Art League of Daytona Beach

2025 - Merit Award, Art League of Daytona Beach

2024–2025 – Juried exhibitions with KBM Art Gallery (Los Angeles), HMVC Gallery, (NY), Jane’s Gallery (New Smyrna Beach, Fl.), Gallery 500 (Daytona Beach, Fl.), The Palm Art Gallery (Los Angeles), Art League of Daytona Beach, Fl., Gallerium Art, Spectrum Art, Abstract Zone, and Exhibizone (Vancouver, Canada); Naturalist Gallery (Washington, DC); and publication in Artstonish (Vancouver) and the University of Pennsylvania Art Magazine (Philadelphia.)

Through her art, Weingart seeks to reclaim feminine spiritual traditions, challenge patriarchal narratives, and promote an ethic of connection—with the Earth, each other, and our deeper selves.