Biography - Lynda Katz

Lynda Katz received her B.A. from Douglass College of Rutgers the State University of New Jersey and her M.S. from Florida State University. She is a working artist who has taught Art History Survey classes face to face for seventeen years at Southeastern Louisiana University. She has also taught studio art classes at Southeastern Louisiana University, Louisiana State University and Florida A& M University. She is excited to join the faculty at AMU and the American Public University System and is looking forward to the challenges of teaching in the online environment.

Her work as a practicing artist gives her the perspective to explain an artist’s working methods and thought processes from the point of view of the maker as well as that of the critic or historian. She feels it is essential to understand and value the visual culture as well as the political, social and historic features of cultures which have contributed to, or been the birthplace of, Western Civilization. As a teacher, she relishes that “light bulb” moment when a student truly understands and becomes enthusiastic about the subject.

Lynda Katz lives in rural southeast Louisiana with her husband and an assortment of cats, dogs and horses. She spends her spare time working in her studio, gardening, horseback riding and traveling.