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Karen Fitzgerald’s work has been widely exhibited in the United States. The Queens Museum of Art, Islip Art Museum, Rahr-West Museum, Madison Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, the University of Arizona – Tucson and the United Nations in NY have featured her work in their active exhibition schedules. A recipient of two grants from the Queens Community Arts Fund, she has also received funds from the Greenwall Foundation and the Women’s Studio Workshop. Her work is in the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Union Gas collection, the Rienhart Collection of Germany, the Museum of New Art in Detroit and many other public and private collections.
In 2005, she completed a commission for the New York City School Construction Authority. It consisted of 28 permanent panels at PS 239 in Queens. In 2003, she completed a 29 x 56 exterior mural for public school 193 in Whitestone, Queens. She has also completed collaborative commissions with composers Charles Griffin and Carl MaultsBy. She has provided comprehensive school reform services for 3 NYC public schools as a coach for Different Ways of Knowing. As project director for ArtistCares, she oversaw the development and implementation of programming in response to 9/11 in NYC, from 2001-2004.
She has been a teaching artist for 22 years and continues to provide consultations for a wide range of institutions on a variety of educational issues. She has taught at St. John’s University, Iona College and worked as education director for the Queens Symphony Orchestra. She was awarded an MFA from Hunter College in 1985, and a M.Ed. from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1990. Karens work can be seen at: www.Fitzgeraldart.com. She lives with her husband and three sons in Woodside, New York.
