Kaitlin Pomerantz is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia who works across forms with purposeful materials to explore social and ecological possibilities under and beyond extractive systems. Pomerantz is the founder of MATTERS, an education initiative connecting materials, labor and land, supporting the formation of creative practices rooted in awareness, care and repair. Pomerantz works in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts and in Fine Arts and Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. As of fall 2026, Pomerantz is faculty co-director of the Center for Public Art and Space at Penn. Pomerantz has received support from Monument Lab, Philadelphia Mural Arts, Sachs Arts and Innovation, and the Leeway Foundation. Pomerantz also curates, writes and tends to plants and oysters.
contact: kkpomerantz @ gmail.com