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 mixed media site-responsive sculptural objects. Her work seeks to explore the visceral and emotional aspects of body experience.

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 from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 2003, and earned her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth in 2010. She currently lives and works in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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