Katie (Magician) Macyshyn

BIO

Katie Macyshyn (they/she) is an artiste and creative play practitioner. Their new media art uses retro consumer aesthetics and camp theatricality to explore mental health, alienation, and reconciliation.They are inspired by adolescent performative play where more is more and bodies are awkward. In collaboration, performer and audience create one-of-a-kind multimedia rituals in pursuit of connection and deeper self-acceptance. Macyshyn has been featured in various performance art festivals, DIY venues, and galleries such as Arlington Arts Center, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, VisArts, and Transformer. They are also an art instructor and songstrix specializing in queering classrooms and the therapeutic benefits of creative play in early childhood. Macyshyn is a regular at experimental performance venue Rhizome DC, DCPL's drag story time, is a resident artist at Project Create, DC, and is a member of DCAC’s Sparkplug Collective. She lives in Mount Rainier, MD and is from Toms River, NJ.