Dr. Cathy Woo is an accomplished poet, composer, painter, teacher, and writer, and the first Asian American woman to serve on the National Council on the Arts.

Cathy Woo's paintings have been shown in galleries and museums throughout Asia and the United States, including the United Nations, the Sackler Museum at Harvard University, and the National Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan. Her paintings have been described as visual poems, because of the simplicity, intensity, and purity of her expressions. A master of Feng Shui, the 4,000-year-old Chinese art of designing one's environment to maximize the flow of positive energy (ch'i), Cathy Woo channels an understanding of harmony and peacefulness into her work.