SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

KR tins email newsletter, monthly since 2015
“Shelton Artists Collaborate” by David Pierik, (photo and commentary) Shelton Gazette 2024
“Annual CVG Show Showcases Region’s Artists” (photos) West Sound magazine, 2025
“Boundless” catalog, (group artist books show) BIMA 2022
“Not Done Yet” by Lisa Edge, Real Change, (photos and quotes) July 10, 2019
“All About Kathy” Philanthropic Educational Organization , Shelton WA, October 2108.
“Take a tour for some local artwork” Shelton-Mason county Journal, May 25, 2017
“2015 Bellevue Arts Fair” by Matt Brashears, The Bellevue Reporter, July 31, 2015
“Fine art in the Park” (photos in program, juried award, mayor’s award) Los Altos, CA 2014.
“Suspended in Perpetual Motion” (featured artist) by Nate Shelton, Sunshine Artist Magazine, Orlando, FL, April 2014.
“Harstine Studio Tour” North Bay Review, Allyn WA April 2013
“Art Festival rules the weekend” and “Show and Sell Time” by Emilee Eagan, The Park Record, Park City Utah, August 2013.
“Memorial Day Weekend Art Tour Harstine Island”, Shelton Life, May 2012
“Love arts in La Quinta this weekend” by Sonya English, The Desert Sun, Palm Desert CA, Mar 11, 2011.
“The Incredible Shrinking Art Market” River Current News, Carnation WA, May 2009.
“Ross Rules” by Alec Clayton, The Weekly Volcano, Tacoma WA June 21 2007.
“Art on Center is reborn with “Anthropomorphic” by John Larson, p.3, sec.C, Tacoma Weekly, June 7’07
“Sculptor Kathy Ross at Stanwood Gallery”, p.5, Stanwood Camano News, July 11’06 Stanwood, WA
“Art: Holiday Spot Invitational”, by Dawnell Smith, Anchorage Daily News, Nov 24 2005, Anchorage, AK
“California Contemporary”, by Pat Worrell, American Style Magazine, p.90, June 2005, Baltimore, MD
“Three NW Artists on display at Gallery One in May”, p.B2, May 20, 2004, The Daily Record, Ellensburg, WA
“Art at the Port: Exploring NW Realism” (catalog ) Aug. 04, Anacortes WA
“Kathy Ross: Personality Quiz” Seattle Art Museum Member News, Page 11, Summer 2003
“In Search of a Homeland”, On Center vol. XV no.2 May-July ‘03, Port Angeles, WA
“The Storyteller’s Subconscious Route” by Deloris Tarzan Ament, Art Access, July August 2002, vol.11, no.6, p.16, Seattle, WA
“Local Galleries Open New Exhibits” The Enterprise, January 17, 2003, Visualize Art section p. 23, Shoreline/Lake Forest Park, WA
“Sleuthing out an Audience for Art of the Human Form”, by Larissa Pfeifer, Skagit Valley Herald, Applause section, February 28, 2002, Page D-1, Everett, WA
“Bet Alef Artists in ‘Liberal’s Art’ Show”, The Jewish Transcript, March 12, 2001, vol. 76, no. 25, p.4, Seattle, WA Methow Arts (cover photo), winter 2000, Twisp, WA
“Four Day Weekend” The Oregonian, Feb. 3, 2000, p.E9, Portland, OR Madison Guide (photo) summer 1999 issue, p. 38, Madison , WI
“Feral Dolls show offers glimpse at Immortality” by Steve Reed, Beachcomber, January 13, 1999, Vashon WA
“Sleep and Other Dreams” by Cheryl Hahn, Art Access, May 1998, vol. 7, no. 4, p.7 Seattle WA
“Offbeat Art Proposals Lend Wacky Charm to Bumbershoot” by Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intellegencer, Aug 30, 1996, p.22, Seattle WA
“Apple Pie Looks at Families” The Richmond News, June 2, 1996, p.17, Richmond B.C. Canada
“Kathy Ross Sculpture Exhibit Speaks from an Inner Landscape” by Rajkhet Dirzhud Rashid, Seattle Gay News, Dec 29, 1995, p.28, Seattle WA
“Women in Community” by Robin Updike, Seattle Times, Dec 9, 1995, p.G30, Seattle, WA
“Oilstick Drawings and the Detritus of the Day”, Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, Feb2’95, Vashon, WA
“Social Activism Makes Blunt Statement at Convention Center” by Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan 12, 1995 pg. C-9, Seattle, WA “American Pie” by Sarah Murray, Seattle Gay News, July 22, 1994, Seattle, WA
“Not Human, Not Animal –They’re Our Pets”, Pasatiempo, Jan 14, 1994, Santa Fe, NM
“Tonight, Art Galleries Celebrate” Idaho Mountain Express, Jan 4, 1994, Sun Valley, ID
“Local Gallery Presents the Unpresentable” The Latest Issue, June 1993, Sacramento
“Bellevue Art Show Draws 650 Entries” by Deloris Tarzan Ament, Seattle Times, July 30, 1992, p. D7, Seattle WA
“Artists Find It Hard To Miss With Fish at Annual Wildlife Theme Show” by Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 19, 1992, Seattle WA “Against the Tide — Grit and Foam” by Dorothy, The News Nov 7, 1991, Atlanta GA
“Going Down With Mapplethorpe” by Cindy Patton, Amethyst, Summer 1991, Atlanta GA
“L’Art Dans La Mode”, LA Times, Inland Empire Scene, May 8, 1991, LA, CA
“Artistic Feast: Dinnerware to Devour” by Ann Holiday, Richmond News Leader, Jan 10 1991, p.22, Richmond VA
“Hand to Hand” by C. Gillis, page 17, Market Times, January 1987, Seattle WA
Bellevue Journal American, photos, March 16, 1981, Bellevue, WA

OTHER MEDIA

Books (written, illustrated with linocuts and drawings, self-published through Blurb.com)
2023 “2xTS: Where have all the peaches gone”
2022 “Musical Chairs with Enough Chairs”
2022 “Where I live”
2018 “Snake Bites”
2017 “The Chocolate Chronicles”
2016 “Chronicles of a Small Planet”

Animated video short films, collaboration with Ann Coppel Productions
2022 “Where I live” (writer, illustrator, voice-over)
2020 “The View From Inside” (illustrator)
2019 “Swimming Underground” (writer, illustrator)
2018 “The Dream” (illustrator)
2018 “Tree climbing” (illustrator)

Also
2025 “Drinks with the Dead” video by Lamar Van Dyke and Ann Coppel productions. “Afterlife” included in original exhibit, also in video
2024 “Artist Talk” video produced by Bainbridge Is Museum of Art
2024 “Exhibition Insights: Kathy Ross— Serious Fun” video produced by Bainbridge Is Museum of Art
2023 “Life, death and sculpture: The Creative Life Story of Kathy Ross” produced by Logan video
2019 “Swimming Underground” animated video short, selected for Film Miami Festival Best Shorts Worldwide
1994 sculptural costumes for series of customer service training videos. Washington Dental Service
1991 Time Traveller hat for use in videos for ITVA awards event
1979 co-edited 2 issues of “Lesbian Home Journal” magazine of diaries, letters, and dreams
1979 co-wrote “Separatist Manifesto” (book), published in England in 1982
Makara Magazine, (story illustrations) autumn issue, 1975, Vancouver BC, Canada
Photos in University of Washington Daily (as staff photographer) 1971-1972, Seattle WA
1967 dramatic reading producer director actor, U of Toronto
1965 “Nice Play Shakespeare” producer director actor Picton ON Canada
1963-69 actor, producer in high school and college productions

SOME COLLECTIONS

Cynthia Sears Book Art Collection
permanent collection Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
Victor Borge
Dolly Parton
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
University of Washington Medical Centre, Seattle
Mayor Sally Nelson, Burien, WA
“The Evolution of Sleep” (commission) Outside In Youth Services, Portland OR
Lillian Bartok collection, NYC
Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art, Bellevue, WA