Former journalist, photographer and publications editor Kathleen Mossman Vitale has produced art documentaries for the past decade.

Documentaries include C.S. Price: Modernist Painter in Search of Spirit, for the University of Oregon's Museum of Art in 2000; Blossoms from the Mud: The Art of Wang Gongyi, in English & French, for the artist's shows in Eugene, Oregon, and Lyons, France, in 2002; and for Endangered Threads Documentaries (ETD), in English & Spanish, with Margot Blum Schevill, Splendor in the Highlands: Maya Weavers of Guatemala, in 2005, and A Century of Color: Maya Weaving & Textiles, in 2007. She adapted a script, directed and edited the 2009 ETD documentary Manuela & Esperanza: The Art of Maya Weaving. She wrote and edited ETD’s latest documentary, Saving the Weavers: Small Assistance Projects for Maya Women in Highland Guatemala.

She lived in Latin America for 13 years, including two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador. She worked in publications in Virginia and Latin America prior to joining the high tech industry, and retired from IBM in 2000.

Kathleen is co-founder and CEO of Endangered Threads Documentaries.