Creator, educator, leader, Changemaker
Holding Space for Artists since 2001.
Nurturing, Amplifying & Celebrating Creative Voices through Collaboration, Multi-Arts Programs, Projects & Spaces. Building Community One Story at a Time.
Katie Elevitch (she/they) is a Rockland County, NY based artist, musician, educator, mentor & community arts leader whose multi-disciplinary projects & programs explore & center intergenerational collaboration, process-based oral storytelling, and place-based creative community building.
As a multi-arts program director and producer since 2001, and as the founding director of StorySpace Arts (2017-present), Katie has helped exhibit, host, produce, nurture, amplify and celebrate the creative works, voices and process of over 500 performing, visual, music and literary and multi-media/new media artists from the lower Hudson Valley, Rockland, Orange, Bergen, Westchester Counties, NYC and beyond.
Studio 101 Nyack, a community arts incubator space from 2022-2026, was an intimate, inclusive, accessible multi-arts venue located in downtown Nyack, NY that partnered with SSPA, rising arts leaders, artist owned businesses and nonprofits to nourish and guide creatives personally and artistically, as they emerged from the post Pandemic world.
Performing her original music at her Album Release Event; Union Arts Center, June 2016.
Cedric St. Louis (Bottom L), Director of StorySpace Arts’ Cypher Plug & Play Program with participants. Studio 101 Nyack, 2024.
“Abandoned Places” Artist Talk at Rockland Center for the Arts, Sept. 2023. Katie Elevitch (center) in conversation with Lisa Levart (R) and collaborating artists (L to R) Joel Newton, Maks Newton, Lou Stainback, Medjine Antoine, Kitty Jagelka, Ash, Mel Weiland, Erin Cardullo.