Native Mainer and artist Kate Farrington ’89 already has a string of letters after her name, including an MFA from the Art Institute of Boston and master’s of liberal arts from Harvard, and is now in the process of adding a Ph.D. to her credentials.

Farrington is studying at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA), a Portland-based low-residency educational program in philosophy and art theory for visual artists, architects, curators and creative scholars with learning centers around the globe. Farrington and IDSVA are highlighted in this Portland Press Herald article.