Cat Dingas serves as the Art Teacher for Lower School and Middle School and the Lower School Athletics Commissioner. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Houston. Cat has been teaching art since 2007 and is Texas Certified for Art in Early Childhood through grade twelve and is a Generalist in Early Childhood through grade four. The Sacred Heart mission is close to Cat's heart as she is a graduate of Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart.

Q: Which of the five Sacred Heart Goals inspires you the most?

A: Goal IV: The building of community as a Christian value. I feel like a lot of people create this narrow mentality where they feel like their reach only goes as far as the circle around them—they don't think in a greater capacity. I like to think about it as the larger community of the world, even beyond, and how little things can have this ripple effect outward.

Q: What is your favorite Regis school event or tradition?

A: I really like the Mater mass—seeing all the boys come together to distribute flowers and wear their pink tie or shirt, or something that kind of unifies us all with something just so simple as a color.

Q: What is your favorite class or project?

A: I do enjoy Middle School projects a lot because we get very intensive with them, and we do a lot of processing, thinking, and developing. I really enjoy being able to see the beginnings of the basic project develop into something greater, like with the Funko Pops.

Q: What is special about working at an all-boys school?

A: It is a lot more relaxed with how the boys approach things, whereas if it were girls, there would be a lot of overthinking. With the boys, they have an idea, and they want to stick with that idea and develop that idea, rather than just giving up and starting fresh. They want to see something through from beginning to end, and I think that's pretty special.

Q: If you could take your students on a field trip to anywhere, where would you take them?

A: It would probably be somewhere in Europe—likely Spain. I'm picturing it in my mind, where we could go see the Museum of Picasso, Dali, the Mayorca, glass, a whole spectrum of different types of art and artists that you can’t see here in the same context.

Q: Coffee or Tea? And how to you like it?

A: Tea…no milk…with two Splenda’s and one ice cube.

Q: What do you admire most about your colleagues?

A: There are so many things, but everyone here is willing to contribute to the greater good of everything around them. If you need something, you don't ever have to ask twice. And that is what makes coming here so special—on top of being with the students and interacting and being in a Sacred Heart School, it's being with the people that I work with that help the day not feel so work heavy. There's always somebody there to encourage you, to offer advice, to be a shoulder to cry on—we're here for each other.

Q: What song do you know all the words to?

A: I like bad bunny a lot. I think I know his songs. Definitely The Beastie Boys.

Q: What is your favorite Houston restaurant?

A: Whataburger with Barnby’s as a close second.

Q: What is your favorite art supply?

A: Crayons—they are so very underrated. People do not use them enough.