Chanse, Catherine

Catherine Chanse is a freelance multimedia producer and developer focusing on web and graphic design as well as interactive media. She has worked with a number of individuals and nonprofits in the Bay Area, including Neighborhood Parks Council, Small Business Majority, and Life Frames, Inc. As an instructor at Art Institute of California Sunnyvale, she teaches and lectures on a number of subjects, including expressive and experimental typography, publication design, digital identity design, and branding.

Prior to moving to the west coast from New York City, Catherine worked with Phipps West Farms Technology & Career Center, where she coordinated the community technology center, and focused on ways to integrate technology to support academic instruction, further basic computer literacy, and build new media skills.

Catherine received her Masters of Arts in Multimedia through the California State University East Bay Multimedia Graduate Program, an interactive and telematic arts program that emphasizes content development and creative expression through the use of digital tools. Her team's thesis project, See What You Feel, used image analysis, data visualization, and storytelling to explore the visual language of emotions as expressed through photographs.