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Kate Walsh grew up in Massachusetts, lives in Chicago and works at the Old Town School of Folk Music. She studied ethnomusicology as an undergrad at NYU, is classically/jazz trained mostly on saxophone, and also play guitar and keyboards. Kate was very involved with the Girls Rock Camp Alliance for many years, and is currently active in local struggles in Chicago to address climate change and mass incarceration. She plays in a shoegaze/punk/grunge band called Deep Fake and a folk group called Kettle Moraine, and is a sometimes-DJ. She enjoys playing softball, riding bikes, analyzing pop music, reading, walking, and listening. Kate is Alida Walsh's second cousin once removed. 

She can be reached at kate.walsh@gmail.com.

Alida Walsh was the daughter of Grace Farwell and Elmer Michael Walsh. She had a sister, Mary (Brand), and two brothers, Charles and Michael. Walsh earned her BS at Northwestern University in 1955 and her MFA at San Diego University in 1956. She was a visual artist working in sculpture, film and multi-media, and was a member of Women Artists in Revolution. Her best-known sculptures are Earth, Mother, Goddess and Walking Nude Mirror. Walsh exhibited in the first all-women art exhibit titled X-12 in New York City in 1969, and co-founded Women Artist Filmmakers in 1973. Her films include The Martyrdom of Marilyn Monroe, and Happy Birthday, I'm 40, an autobiographical film, as well as Women Bound and Unbound, a multimedia performance presented at the National Women's Conference in Houston and funded by the Ms Foundation. One of the founding members of Women/Artist/Filmmakers, Inc., Walsh was assistant professor at Montclair State University for twenty-six years, where she taught film history, and film and video as art forms; she also taught at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City. Walsh died in December 2006 in Schenectady, New York. Her archive can be found at Smith College Special Collections Library.