Creative leader based in Los Angeles, CA.

Catherine Menard recently served as Vice President and Chief Creative Officer to NATIVE RECORDS, a company which she co-founded. Here she offered design and business strategy, implementation and oversight, to this record-keeping and compliance auditing business servicing a wide spectrum of industries.

Prior to this venture, she maintained her own business as an independent strategist, designer, artist and collaborator, engaged with clients ranging from design strategy firms to established sculptors. She has also contributed to envisioning the future of spaces and branding for companies such as The Durst Organization, The Kimpton Hotel franchise, Yosemite National Park, Boeing + Teague, Motorola, Saachi & Saachi and Toyota.

Additionally, Catherine worked over four years to actualize her winning conceptual design of the Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial. In partnership with Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists, this public artwork was completed and unveiled for the 100 year commemoration of the Armenian Genocide on April 24th 2015 in Pasadena’s Memorial Park. Catherine has appeared on the cover of Pasadena Weekly, on Armenian Television, in the Los Angeles Times Local, and KCET's esteemed ArtBound.

Prior to the Memorial, Menard designed and built the stage set for ArtCenter College of Design's first TEDx conference held in Pasadena, California. Catherine was also in a select group of designers who collaborated with The Getty Center's team to design the exhibition “LA Constructs the Future: 1940-1990,” which exhibited at The Getty Center in the Summer of 2013.

Catherine recently returned to ArtCenter and earned her Master of Fine Arts in the Spring of 2023.