Painter and visual artist Corinne Colarusso was born in 1952 in Boston, MA. She studied painting at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she earned a bachelor’s of fine arts in 1973. In 1975, she also received a master’s of fine arts from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia. That same year, she began teaching at the Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta, Georgia (now SCAD), and was promoted to Associate Professor of Painting, Drawing, and Design in 1982. There, she served on numerous committees as Head of the Foundation Design Program and Head of the Painting department and established a Visiting Artist Program.
Colarusso specializes in richly hued botanical and landscape paintings inspired by the natural world. Many of her pieces draw from the environment of the wetlands bordering Florida and Georgia, where she currently lives. Her work has appeared in exhibitions across the country and has been featured in numerous journals and publications such as Art Papers and The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Recognition for her work includes Two MacDowell Fellowships (1977, 1979) and grants from the Fulbright Association, National Endowment for the Arts, Georgia Council for the Arts, Mellon Foundation, and Guggenheim Foundation. In 2006, Colarusso was selected to be an artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome.
