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About the Artist Who Created the Awards

Betsy DeFusco, painter, Columbus

Betsy DeFusco, a native of Jamestown, New York, received a degree in art education from the University of Dayton. In her earlier career as an artist, she worked as an illustrator, completing house portrait commissions, designing and illustrating a calendar of Columbus landmarks and designing notecards. She also designed and reproduced pen and ink drawings that were then hand colored and marketed widely under the company name Attic Arts. In 1992 she returned to school and completed her MFA in painting and drawing from The Ohio State University. Since then she has made painting her focus, working on paper, canvas and wood. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings magazine, and her work has been exhibited widely locally and nationally. Recent solo or two person shows include Keny Galleries in 2005 and 2008, The Ohio State University Faculty Club in 2004 and the Dayton Visual Arts Center in 2001. She has been given awards at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Tennessee and the Muse Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 2007 she received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Her work is included in the public collections of Alliance Capital in New York, Huntington National Bank in Cleveland and Microcom Corporation in Columbus. Currently DeFusco is represented by Keny Galleries and Art Exchange Ltd. in Columbus and Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York.

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