Katrina J. Devlin
VISUAL ART / CREATIVE WRITING / INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN
ABOUT KATRINA
Katrina is a visual artist, poet, and science educator roaming the hills, valleys, and waterways of upstate NY. She has a B.S. in Biology (dual major in studio art), M. S. in Limnology and Marine Science, and NYS teaching certifications in Biology and Special Education. She is a lifelong creative with a decade of biology teaching under her ample fanny pack. Her work blends science with artistic expression in delightful and insightful ways.
ART & WRITING
Katrina uses digital and handmade approaches to portray vibrant emotional complexity within, and, in opposition to, the violent landscape of the patriarchy, capitalism, and western culture. Visit her Visual Art page for a delicious sampling of her “embroidollages” (mixed media embroidery), digital collages, and sketches.
In her writing, she draws upon fairy tales, nature, and science to tell intersectional feminist stories of love, struggle, and defiance. Check out her Natural History Lessons blog for examples of her illustrated poems.
INSTRUCTIONAL
DESIGN
High school and college biology courses are over-packed with content, leaving students and teachers overwhelmed!
To address this problem, Katrina’s Crafty Ribosome online learning resources provide structured, yet playful, ways to get beyond memorizing (and forgetting) lists of facts to learn more deeply.
These tools are for students and teachers!
Katrina’s philosophy:
“Learn to create. Create to Learn.”
Crafty Ribosome :
Helps students study actively while enjoying fun, carefully-sequenced activities that cover the main concepts of common biology courses.
Helps teachers expand content knowledge and/or gain new teaching techniques while easily copying tools for immediate use with their students.
“When I was struggling, Katrina lifted me out of the dark and into the light.”
Xiaohong • Anatomy & Physiology I Student
