Katty Huertas

Katty Huertas is a multidisciplinary artist born in Colombia and based in Washington, DC. She holds an MFA from MICA.

Her work explores identity, folklore, and double standards, among other subjects. She likes combining analog and digital mediums including painting, digital drawing, and animation.

She previously worked at Nickelodeon as part of the Launch Team and at NBC News as an editorial designer. Currently, she is a senior designer and art director at The Washington Post where she created the artwork for the Pulitzer finalist, and Webby award winner podcast, Broken Doors.

Most recently she completed a 30-foot mural as part of Noma in Color, which you can see at the MBT in Washington, D.C..

Her debut illustrated book Karma is a Cat, coming out on January 2025 and is available for preorder now. ↗

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CLIENTS
AARP · Adobe · Adweek · Austin Monthly · Brooklyn Museum · BuzzFeed News · Cosmopolitan · Disney+ · Fast Company · Harvard Business Review · HBO Max · LAND Studio · Macmillan Publishers · Medium · National Gallery of Art · Nickelodeon · Playboy · Politico · Red Bull Music Academy · Science Magazine · Science News · Skillshare · Sierra Magazine · Star Tribune · Texas Monthly · The New York Times · The New Yorker · The Pool · Vox.com · The Wall Street Journal · The Washington Post · WIRED · Women's March · YouTube · Zeit Wissen

INTERVIEWS, FEATURES & PODCASTS

• Beyond the Studio Podcast

• The Illustration Department Podcast

• Draws in Spanish Podcast

• Adobe

• Creative boom, Mural 2023

• Creative boom 2021

• Creative Review

• AIGA NY Fresh Grad

• Create Magazine

• Skillshare Blog

• Society 6 2022, 2016