Kathy Lowry

Kathryn Lowry is a translator and researcher, focused on people and ideas on the margins who

became agents for change. She has written on how print spread music and how media can alter

concepts. The materiality of ideas is central to her work across disciplines.

She turned to the art sector after twenty years teaching Chinese literature and language, founding a gallery to give workshops in conjunction with exhibitions. Because she believes in the power of dialogue, she has organized numerous conference panels, seminars, artist residencies, and contemporary art exhibits, in collaboration with scholars, artists, and curators.

Lowry’s interest in material resources and transformation—and a hands-on papermaking workshop—led to an invitation to join the Circular Community Hong Kong in 2016. CCHK is a dynamic, multi-pronged effort to inspire and educate people across fields in order to make circular economic practices mainstream. She completed the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Circular Economy Bootcamp, the beta version. She is also a Master Composter, part of a cohort at the New York Botanical Garden. She started her career at Project Zero, as research assistant to Howard Gardner. 

She received a BA from Princeton and her doctorate from Harvard.