A B O U T

Although her training and background was primarily focused on ceramic vessels and sculpture, Bethany Rusen now draws on a wide variety of interests, materials, theories, and personal histories to construct her site-specific installation pieces. Her work seeks to exploit the uneasy line between art and craft, and to explore and question the cultural assumptions around gender, women's work and the spaces they occupy, both in the physical sense as well as in our collective cultural imagination.

Rusen was an artist-in-residence at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston, Texas, from July 2005 to February 2006. She graduated with a BFA in Ceramics from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and is currently pursuing her MFA in Ceramics at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She currently lives and works in New Bedford, Massachusetts.