Biography

Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky, a native New Yorker, is a visual artist, multimedia arts writer and playwright. She graduated from New York University, where she worked with master printmaker Robert Blackburn and Mercedes Matter, founder of the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village.

In Cambridge, MA, Boriss-Krimsky cofounded and codirected the Sacramento Street Gallery and created and ran an innovative studio art salon for young children, teenagers and adults called Artspace. As a visual artist, she is best known for monotypes that merge painting, collage and printmaking into multilayered visual poetry. She describes her visual work as, "open pages of wordless books, exploring vulnerability, and the borders between chaos and order."

After teaching in public schools, art studios, mental health centers and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, she published a book in 1999 called The Creativity Handbook, meant to demystify art for parents and teachers and to provide skills to better support the authentic artistic vision of the child/adolescent. Selections from her published arts writing include: "The Art of Public Conversation: A Look at Anna Deavere Smith and the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, "(ArtsAround Boston, Summer 2000, "Self-taught Art; Who Are the Outsiders in ‘Outsider’ Art?" (Art New England, December 2000/January 2001, "Yoko Ono: Art of the Mind" (Art New England, October/November 2001), " Multimedia Pioneer ; An Interview with Yoko Ono, (Ruminator Review, 2002).

Currently a member of the Writers' Forum at Manhattan Theatre Source, a developmental lab for playwrights, Boriss-Krimsky also attends HB Studio in New York. One of her ten-mnute plays, Taxi Dreams, was produced as a part of "TheLiving Room Plays," at HB Playwrights Theater in New York in 2009 and was also a finalist in the Estrogenuis Festival of short plays at Manhattan Theatre Source in 2009. Taxi Dreams was also included in the InGENIUS Festival at Manhattan Theatre Source in 2010.

Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky | carolynbk@comcast.net