Catherine Underhill

I’m a Syracuse native, the middle of seven kids (yes, Irish Catholic lineage), and spent all my summers at my family’s camp at Brantingham Lake – also inside the Blue Line and just around the bend from Old Forge – where I fell in love with all activities related to water, and running barefoot everywhere.

Over the course of a long career in arts management, I’ve lived in Boston (twice), Boulder (twice), and Atlanta (once), but most of my post-college life was in Colorado where my husband Steve and I raised three fabulous humans who are now all grown up and living their own adventures.

At 17 I spent a year in Peru, high in the Andes in the ancient Incan capital Cuzco, as an exchange student. I arrived with three years of high school French under my belt, so I was basically mute for the first month
or so. But I didn’t need language to absorb the arts and culture of that amazing place – architecture, music, dance, clothing and fabrics, food and festivals – and I think that experience is the root of my belief that the arts are unique in their power to inspire, engage, and connect us.

In July of 2022, I joined the fabulous team at View, and I feel so lucky to be here, at the intersection of
the arts and Adirondacks. Please come visit, and experience all that View has to offer. It’s amazing!