Bethany Rusen
Bitches by Crazy
Ceramic mug
About Bethany Rusen
Bethany Rusen 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 graduated with a BFA in ceramics from Tyler School of Art in 2003 and earned her MFA in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth in 2010. Her work has been exhibited nationally at a variety of venues, including
Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Boston University and The Clay Studio. She has completed residencies at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia.
In her spare time, she likes to go through other people’s trash, take her greyhounds to the dog park and scour the internet for Richard Nixon memorabilia. She is currently the ceramics studio technician at Main Line Art Center in Haverford, PA and lives in a townhouse in West Philadelphia full of strange things. Her hair is usually pink.