Artist's Biography

Award-winning painter Delaire Rowe works out of her studio on the second floor of the old Price Building on the corner of 10th and State streets in Bowling Green, Kentucky. After earning her MFA from Brooklyn College in New York (CUNY) and her BFA from Indiana University in Bloomington, she returned to Bowling Green where she began her art career at Western Kentucky University (WKU). She has served as artist-in-residence for the Kentucky Arts Council and International Paper Company, adjunct instructor in the WKU Art Department, Artist/Trainer for the Kentucky Collaborative for Teaching and Learning, and workshop facilitator for Very Special Arts Kentucky and The Center for Gifted Studies at WKU. Ms. Rowe's paintings, drawings and prints have been exhibited throughout the region, United States, Europe and Japan. Her work is held in private and corporate collections, and she has received numerous awards through her work with young children. Selected one-person exhibitions include the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Art Museum (Nashville), B. Deemer Gallery (Louisville), Gosser Fine Arts Center (Campbellsville) and the Houchens Gallery, Capitol Arts Center (Bowling Green). Selected group exhibitions include The Kentucky Museum (WKU), Singletary Center for the Arts (University of Kentucky) and First Street Gallery (New York). I am delighted to be working as a Kentucky Arts Council Community Artist-in-Residence at the Kentucky Museum. Expressing Kentucky is the name of the project and it is dedicated to all people who need a place for art in their lives and community. It is a collaboration of diverse groups of people who are coming together in creating something that could not be done alone. Our task is to transform ideas about our communities in the state of Kentucky into works of art. The museum, in addition to, various community centers provide a place for art, the people who make it and those who will see it. Everyone is welcome to participate in this cultural portrait.                        Delaire Rowe DELAIRE ROWE ART STUDIO 1004 State Street, Suite 12 Bowling Green, KY 42101 ph: 270-842-0922 Sponsored in part by a grant from the Kentucky Arts Council a state agency in the Education, Arts and Humanities Cabinet.

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