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catie at floorlengthandtux dot com

I run the Spiderbug short-film series, and the Floor Length and Tux exhibition series with my husband EC Brown.


Film Screenings

2010

"TBA", Fringe Suite & Interlude, BYOFF#2: Backyard Outdoor Film Festival, Chicago

"French Toast", International Pancake Film Festival tour: Chicago, San Antonio, Cambridge

"Just Looking", intro to Kick premiere screening, Chopin Theater, Chicago

"Lanolin Dreams", Origins, Random House, Chicago

2009

"Lambosaurus", For Better or Worse, SpiderBug screening, The Nightingale Theatre, Chicago

2008

"Just Looking", Heaven Gallery Tour: Berlin, Prague and Paris

"The Hand Film", Heaven Comedy Video Show, Heaven Gallery, Chicago

"TBA", The pH show SpiderBug screening, Art Exposium, West Chicago, Finch Gallery, Chicago

"Lambosaurus", Ashtrays to Art, The Architrouve, Chicago

2007

"Star Wars VII", COMA 15, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago

"The Hand Film", COMA 13, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago

"Just Looking", The Third Winter Screening, Heaven Gallery (Chicago), Green Room (Milwaukee) and Echo Park Film Center (LA)

2006

"Endless Summer III", The 3rd Annual Apple Cider Screening, Heaven Gallery, Chicago

"The Fringe Suite and Interlude", COMA 6, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago

"P. Bunny Does His Taxes", Easter Tax Pageant Show, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn

2005

"Coopdesque", Heaven Gallery and The Ice Factory's Ice Capades, Chicago





Education

BFA, August, 2000: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

BS, May, 1995: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign





Press

Chicago Journal, "Tour de pie", Dec. 28, 2006

New City Chicago, "Political Propaganda", Oct. 28, 2004








Exhibits

2010

Installation, Gravity & Its Friends SpiderBug group show, Voice of the City Studio, Chicago

Group show, "Grown", Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago

Group Show, FLAT 6, Floor Length and Tux, Chicago

Performance, "It Has Come to Our Attention That We Do Not Own a Pair of Black Stilettos", Version Fest 10, Chicago

Group Show, FLAT 5, Floor Length and Tux, Chicago

2009

Group Show, FLAT 4, Floor Length and Tux, Chicago

Group Show, Zombie: A Mindless Affair, Antena Gallery, Chicago

Joint sculpture piece, "Pie Art", The Last Supper, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY

Group Show, FLAT 3, Floor Length and Tux, Chicago

Organizer of SpiderBug Flunking Calculus, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

Group show, FBI as part of DOGCAT, Swimming Pool Project Space, Chicago

Group Show, Shrill and a Half Block Party presented by Joymore Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

Group Show, FLAT 2, Floor Length and Tux, Chicago

Group Show, FLAT 1, Floor Length and Tux, Chicago

Group Show, Molotovia Cottontail vs. Dusty Bunnyfield, mini dutch gallery, Chicago

mini fair, miniFLAT, mini dutch gallery, Chicago

Group Show, inclusion for 12 X 12 of Edra Soto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2008

Organizer of SpiderBug Rube Goldberg Failures Screening Exhibition, Deadtech Gallery, Chicago

Associate Degree of Science, Chicago, Kansas City (MO) and St. Louis

The House of Seven Closets, Chicago

COMA 18, California Occidental Museum of Art

2007

Organizer of SpiderBug Kickoff Screening, The Green Lantern, Chicago

Chicago Artists Month, Webster Wine Bar, Chicago

Synchronized Pieing, Central Park, NYC

2006

A Night at the Races: Racecar is Racecar Backwards, but Piecar Forwards is a Challenge, Green Lantern Gallery, Chicago

Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane?, Elastic Arts Foundation Gallery, Chicago

COMA 7, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago

Laugh Seriously, Butcher Shop Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago

Around the Coyote Winter Arts Festival, Chicago

2005

Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art

Strange and Bizarre Show, Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago

Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival, Chicago

2004

Group exhibit, Gold Star, Chicago

2003

Group exhibit, Monkey Business Gallery, Chicago

New Mark bold remark, Monkey Business Gallery, Chicago

Peoplespaces, Bighouse Space, Chicago