About Kristy Deetz
Kristy Deetz is Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin—Green Bay. Her extensive exhibition record includes national and international venues. With Reni Gower, she co-curated FABRICation that traveled to art museums, university art galleries, and art centers. She is frequently a visiting artist and has led numerous painting/drawing workshops at venues including Haystack, Oxbow, Penland, Anderson Ranch, and Arrowmont. UWGB awarded her the 2011 Founders Award for Excellence in Scholarship and in 2024 she received the Wisconsin Visual Art Achievement Award for Educator (College/University). She received SECAC’s 2016 Award for Excellence in Teaching and a 2015 Silver Award from Graphis Design Annual, NY. Her paintings have been featured in Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century, Encaustic Art—The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax, and Full-Range Color Painting for the Beginner. Kristy served as Erasmus Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kassel, Germany and Artist-in Residence at The Burren College of Art in Ireland. With writer Edward S. Louis (pen name for Edward Risden; website https://www.edwardslouis.com ) she published two illustrated books through Elm Grove Publishing: The Singular Adventures of Rabbit and Kitty Boy and Holidays Unfolding: The Continuing Adventures of Rabbit and Kitty Boy. Currently her Holidays Unfolding and Through the Veil series and corresponding books are traveling together across the country as the shows, Threads, Folds & Rabbit Holes and Rabbit Weaving: Complex Threads of Making (industrial jacquard weavings). Kristy works in painting, sculpture, and digital media. Her recent painting series, Disrupted Gardens, imagines evolving ecospheres and investigates environmental concerns.
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