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Caitlin Rhea

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Biography

Caitlin Rhea is currently the Executive Director at First City Art Center, a local 501(c)(3) non-profit center for the visual arts. For over twenty years, she has been dedicated to the arts, the environment, and community service. By creating art objects that signify the need for environmental remediation, Caitlin’s work responds to a wide variety of issues surrounding water - from water availability, to water quality, to ocean acidification and its effect on shellfish and corals. Caitlin studies water flow patterns through natural and manufactured systems, channeling the focus of her research toward finding innovative solutions to alleviate a variety of issues.


Caitlin attended UMASS, Amherst and UNM, Albuquerque, receiving her BFA in Ceramics with a minor in Art History in 2006. In 2011, Caitlin received an MFA in Sculpture at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA. For the next four years, she was an adjunct instructor at Framingham State University. Caitlin also worked as a full-time ceramics studio manager for ten consecutive summers at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill in Truro, MA.


Upon moving to Pensacola in the fall of 2015, Caitlin taught 2D Design, and several art history courses at Pensacola State College. Caitlin also taught painting and sculpture courses at PSC’s Collegiate High School. Her husband, Jimmy Rhea, is the Sculpture Instructor at PSC.