Betsy Stirratt

Betsy Stirratt, a native of New Orleans, has exhibited her paintings, books, objects, and installations widely since 1983. She has had solo exhibitions at The Mütter Museum, the International Museum of Surgical Science, and galleries and museums in the US and in Ireland. Her work has been included in group exhibits at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, White Columns, and Art in General, among many others.  She is the recipient of a Visual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and awards from the Indiana Arts Commission and the American Craft Council.

She is the Founding Director of the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University in Bloomington. She has curated many exhibits, including Personal: Selections from the Robert J. Shiffler Collection and, more recently, State of Nature: Picturing Indiana Biodiversity. She has edited several books and catalogs, including [Re]Imagining Science, Indiana University Press (2017), Framing Beauty: Intimate Visions, Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University (2017), Human Nature, School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University (2007), Les Vérités du Sexe, Editions Marval, Paris, France (French, German editions, 2003) and Feminine Persuasion: Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN (2003).