Born in 1968 in Washington DC, Kaersten Colvin-Woodruff has been exhibiting and lecturing on her artwork in national and international settings for more than thirty years and currently lives and works in the state Pennsylvania.

She received her Master of Fine Arts in visual art/sculpture from Arizona State University in 1994, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts also in sculpture, from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1991. Since 1994 she has been teaching in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Pennsylvania Western University in the state of Pennsylvania.

She is affiliated with Pounds Per-Square Inch Performance (lbs./sq”), a performing arts company based in Toronto/Ontario Canada and founded by director Gerry Trentham. Here she served as a collaborator on two bi-national interdisciplinary creative projects, The Art of Peace II/Arrivals, and The Apology Project. Each venue was a collision of performance, visual, and media art, and was exhibited and performed at Silo City alternative arts space in Buffalo, New York, the Canadian Contemporary Dance Theater and at the Harbourfront Center Theater in Downtown Toronto.

Currently she is allied with The Arrivals Legacy Project based in Montreal/Quebec Canada, founded by director and dramaturge Diane Roberts. Kaersten serves as a participant of both the legacy workshop and the Arrivals Legacy Project website. In tandem, both the workshop and the website encourage global artists from various disciplinary backgrounds to co-create new innovative works based upon cultural and personal histories.

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