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Kim Russo is an artist, a writer, and an educator. Russo has received residency fellowships from Caldera Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Americans for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her drawings are included in the permanent collections of the New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe, New Mexico) and the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum (Lafayette, Louisiana), as well as the private collections of Glenn Horowitz (New York), Shana Nys Dambrot (Los Angeles), Amanda and and Keith Innes (Santa Fe), Patti Crews (Dallas), Lynn Marchand Goldstein (Santa Fe), and Cyndi Conn (Santa Fe).

Russo has written for the Journal Santa Fe and the The New Mexican. Her current writing project, about what we can learn from contemporary artists who are practicing Buddhists, has been supported by a Lenz Fellowship in Buddhist Studies and American Culture and Values from Naropa University.

Russo was born in Darby, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art (Temple University) and her MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington. Russo lives and works in Valencia, CA where she is the Associate Provost of Academic Affairs at California Institute of the Arts. Her studio resume and examples of her work can be viewed at kimrusso.net.and her writing may be read at Art Envelope.

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Saturday, August 27, 2011

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