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Kaersten Colvin-Woodruff is a visual artist working in 3-dimentions and mixed media. She is a professor of 30 years at Pennsylvania Western University at Clarion in Clarion, Pennsylvania and is currently teaching sculpture, 3-Design, and African American Art and Artists.
She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1991, with a concentration in sculpture, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Arizona State University, also with a concentration in sculpture in the year 1994.
For over thirty years she has been exhibiting and lecturing on her artwork in both national, and international exhibitions. She is affiliated and collaborates with Pounds Per Square Inch Performance out of Toronto, ON, Canada. She has also exhibited at The Scottsdale Center for Contemporary Art in Scottsdale, Arizona, The Ossabaw Island Foundation out of Savannah, Georgia, The Foundation for Contemporary Art in Accra, Ghana, and The Peruvian North American Cultural Center in Arequipa, Peru.
Her latest artistic undertakings are with the Art of Peace II in tandem with The Arrivals Legacy Project directed by dramaturge and cultural animator Diane Roberts out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and choreographer Gerry Trentham, and The Apology Project, with Pounds-Per-Square-Inch-Performance under artistic director Gerry Trentham out of Toronto, Canada. Both projects are interdisciplinary collaborations between performers, artists, and filmmakers.
