About - Artist Betsy Krebs

Artist Betsy (Elizabeth) Krebs received her formal education in Art from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY where she received an M.S. in Art Education and minored in painting.

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As with many artists, however, long before the diploma — art was always a part of Betsy’s life.

Her work has been featured in many solo exhibitions, most notably the Hyde Collection as a regional artist and was invited to create a miniature putting green as part of the “Putt Modernism” show, an interactive miniature golf exhibition that travels around the country. She has been painting and showing in group exhibitions throughout the North Country as well as nationally and internationally. Betsy first started in Albany, NY soloing at venues like the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls NY, the Albany Boys Academy in Albany, NY; the College of Saint Rose (master show) in Albany, NY; the Gibson Gallery at SUNY Potsdam College, Potsdam, the Valley Artisans Gallery in Cambridge, NY, with an exhibition about Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein in German occupied France as seen through Alice”s recipe; the Saratoga Arts Center, Saratoga, NY, One solo show and two in small group exhibitions; SUNY Adirondack, Queensbury, NY, permanent collection; and of course in the solo and juried exhibitions at the Lake Placid Arts Center The Open Space Gallery in Saratoga Springs, NY. and Albany Center Gallery, with various juried international acceptance and awards.

Betsy’s Resume/CV click on the link below

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Her main focus relates to stories about people and note worthy occurrences in history, cultural outcroppings, social nuances, stories derived from food. Recipes become her original catalyst for her creations. Many of these images contained a subtle sense of humor. All bodies of work are woven into the fiber of the cultural, historical, and a slight anthropological take on life, creating a story behind the pieces, hence the stories unravel. She has been doing these since the 1990s, showing at the Hyde Museum, the Cambridge Valley Artisans Market in Cambridge, and SUNY Adirondack, as well as Saratoga Arts, name a few.

Betsy was asked to add two paintings for inclusion in the new addition of the Adirondack Mountain Club’s publication of Paul Jamieson’s “The Adirondack Reader,” a compilation of written and visual representations of the evidence of man in the Adirondacks. This was done to honor Mr. Paul Jamieson’s 100th birthday by including new art color images, along with new author texts. This book is used as a text book in a local High School course on Adirondack Literature.

Artist Residency proposals are her current direction for making art bodies. These bodies of art allow her to shed light on cultural, historical and social queries that align with specific calls from national and international institutions. Along with residencies, Betsy has found Grant writing to direct her voice working with regional and national offerings.

The first grant exploring how food and the first settelers survived on what foods prevailed. Difficult to extract recipes from the original sources available, it became a humorous and interactive show with many of the recipes available to taste, if one was so daring to do so.

The second grant received through the Warren County decentralization regrant program is directly related to the schoolhouse that she owns. Its vast collection of information, school records, documents, including recipes, were used to tell a story I call an imaginary “exploration of the past” a perfect project to educated and promote the note worthy inhabitants in the early 1900’s with the research that could be derived.

For more information, contact Betsy at (518) 260-5405; or email her at elikrebs@hotmail.com