Kathryn Kostow
Kathryn Kostow is a biologist, writer, artist and graphic designer. She is the owner and principal of the art and publishing business Kostow Fine Art, located in Oregon City. Ms. Kostow’s preferred visual media include oil and water color paints, digital photography, and ink. Her most recent book publication is The Book of Susan, a biographical collection of restored historic photographs, historic essays and poetry about a pioneer woman in the Pacific Northwest. Ms. Kostow is a member of the Steering Committee of the Lake Oswego Festival of Arts and regularly participates as an artist in their annual art festival. She has contributed to public art displays in the Portland area, with her most recent contribution being the art and graphic design of the stream demarcation signs for the Greater Oregon City Watershed Council, erected at watershed street crossings throughout Oregon City. Ms. Kostow has degrees in biology from the College of Idaho and University of Minnesota. She is retired after a career of 35 years as a conservation biologist in Oregon and the Columbia Basin, and is the author or a contributing author of several scientific articles and books about fish biology. Kathryn Kostow lives with her husband, Douglas DeHart, in Oregon City, Oregon, USA.
