KATE SEGAL GREW UP in 1990s New York City, and with a long line of female artists on both sides of her family, had the privilege of going to museums such as the MoMA and the Whitney from a young age. So, creating and viewing art had always been a part of her life. “I remember when I was very little, my grandma Marian bought me a book called Katie’s Picture Show and it was about a little girl who went to a museum and was able to climb into various pictures. She climbed into a Kandinsky painting and was hanging off a circle’s landing on one of the squares. I remember feeling really envious.”
Her grandmother was a fashion illustrator back