Have you ever wanted to actually attend the mad hatter’s tea party, but more for artsy stuff and a bit more chill? Well, Katie Farmer is Production professional and multi-medium artist with years of wide-ranging experience in film, television, stage and artistic production. 

Personally I love and relate to superheroes such as DareDevil, Rogue, Mystique and Wolverine. I have both a hearing loss and metal leg reconstruction from surviving osteosarcoma and melanoma, and I love that I can look to strong super heroes who endure to remind me that I’m strong, unique and undefeatable.

“When I was going through chemotherapy treatment at 13 years old, and I had my tibia and femur replaced by titanium, and my hair was scruffy and falling out, I was proud to tell people, ‘Oh you know, I’m basically the real life Wolverine.’ But unlike Wolverine, I’ve used art to sort out my confusion and frustration.”

“Osteosarcoma is not a common cancer. Each year, about 1,000 new cases of osteosarcoma are diagnosed in the United States. About half of these are in children and teens.”  American Cancer Society’s Cancer Statistics Center

“If osteosarcoma is diagnosed and treated before it has spread outside the area where it started, the general 5-year survival rate for people of all ages is 74%. If the cancer has spread outside of the bones and into surrounding tissues or organs and/or the regional lymph nodes, the 5-year survival rate is 66%. If the cancer has spread to distant parts of the body, the 5-year survival rate is 27%.” American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

After graduating from The University of St. Thomas, Katie was assistant to Ian Cion, Director of the Arts and Medicine Program at M.D.  Anderson Cancer Center, producing projects in several mediums including a digital mural, a life size sea dragon named Akoa, displayed in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and space suits that were worn by astronauts on the International Space Station.

More recently Katie  worked as a Production Assistant on the film, “Nothing Really Happens”, which was the Winner of several awards including Best Feature Film at the Sci-fi London Film Festival. Katie also works with Comedian Lahna Turner on a Female Comedy Tour produced and documentary about the late Ralphie May.

“I love every part of the production process. Ultimately I am focusing on working as a director and cinematographer, a story teller. I want to reach people through stories the same way stories have taught me more about who I am and the world I live in. I especially love how fiction can help us process real world situations.”

Katie’s most recent published work is an article about the Art of Performance for the School of Rock Company.