Kathy Nida has been making art since she was young. She continued to study art in college, at University of California, Irvine, focusing largely on ceramics, photography, and printmaking, and delving into feminist issues in her work. Nida spent a year studying abroad at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

After college, where she earned a bachelors in Studio Art, Nida began as a printmaker, eventually moving into the fiber arts. Her work explores issues of a woman’s existence and is very much a narrative of her personal life, even as it refers to the greater human population. Human rights, climate change, and gun control are recent focuses in some of her pieces. The never-ending palette of commercial and hand-dyed fabrics brings her joy, and she also appreciates the slight three-dimensionality and tactile quality of working with fabric.

Nida’s work has been shown internationally and has been published many times.