Bergquist, Kate

Kate Bergquist is an Austin resident who promoted literacy and performance art through her career as an artist and illustrator in Central Texas. Her husband Carl Bergquist, also an artist and graphic designer, taught visual communication at the university level in the Austin area.

Carl O. Bergquist was born in 1919 in Pasadena, California, the son of the Reverend Carl Waldemar Bergquist and Elva Marie Carlson Bergquist. The family moved to Georgetown, Texas in 1927. Carl graduated from Southwestern University in Georgetown before joining the U.S. Navy and served as a Navel Aviator in World War II. After the war, Carl earned a master's degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago while teaching at Southwestern. During this time, while taking some additional classes at the Chicago Art Institute, Carl met his future wife Kate Nindos.

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