Karen Patterson is the Executive Director of Ruth Arts since 2021. Previously, Patterson was served as Curator at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadephia, and as Curator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) in Sheboygan, before that. Prior to joining JMKAC, she developed interpretive programs for house museums and heritage sites in Canada and the US and co-founded a 12-hour public art festival, Nocturne: Art at Night, in Nova Scotia. She has curated exhibtions and projects such as Ebony G. Patterson: Dead Treez, Ray Yoshida’s Museum of Extraordinary Values, and This Must Be The Place, an exhibition series exploring the relationship between artists and their formative places. Patterson completed her Bachelor of Arts in Folklore Studies at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada, and her Masters of Art Administration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where her focus was the home collection of Chicago artist Ray Yoshida.
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