Since 2008, Kathy Rodriguez has served as an instructor at the University of New Orleans, teaching courses in art history and studio art. Between 2008-2011, she also taught as an adjunct instructor at Delgado Community College campuses in Covington and City Park, New Orleans. She has taught on UNO’s study abroad programs in Innsbruck, Austria, and Rome, Italy. She is the recipient of two Engagement Awards for serving as mentor of choice to the most students in InnovateUNO, the annual university-wide research symposium at UNO.

 

In addition to teaching, Rodriguez served as Director of the UNO-St. Claude Gallery from 2011-18, curating exhibitions and scheduling programming for the off-campus presence of visual arts at UNO in the greater New Orleans community. She served in a similar capacity for the on-campus UNO Fine Arts Gallery from 2018-2020. She is currently the Director of the UNO Women's Center.

 

Rodriguez has an international exhibition record including virtual and in-person shows. Her work has been included in exhibitions at The Brooklyn Lyceum, Midwest Nice Art, The Louisiana State Capitol, The Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, and The Ogden Museum of Art in New Orleans. She wrote art criticism for New Orleans Art Review from 2009-22 and published with Pelican Bomb and NOLA Defender. She has written for a variety of catalogs and for museum exhibitions, including the Missoula Art Museum as part of a grant by The Andy Warhol Foundation.

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She is a founding member of TEN artists’ collective and was a member of Second Story Gallery Collective in New Orleans from 2021-3. A native of Metairie, Louisiana, Rodriguez is delighted to live and work in New Orleans with students, artists, and others in the wide swath of the city and beyond. She is now an Assistant Professor at UNO.