BIOGRAPHY

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Prudy Kohler

Prudy is a practicing artist who works mainly in photographic transfer media.

She firmly believes that everyone—regardless of his or her day job—is creative and should have the opportunity to experience the joy of making a piece of art.

Art has always been in her life, and she has taught studio courses as well as art history in high school and community college for over 25 years. An arts educator, Prudy knows the value of the arts in all aspects of an individual's development and work life.

In addition to her ART FOR LUNCH activities, Prudy is currently an arts consultant to organizations such as the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Getty Foundation, and the Bay Area Arts Town Hall.She also served as senior program officer at a California foundation that funds the arts in all disciplines and as an administrator at the San Francisco Art Institute. Currently Prudy teaches workshops at the San Francisco Center for the Book and is a visiting artist/instructor at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Both her degrees - BA from Pomona College and MA from San Francisco State University - are in art history.

Prudy's Art for Lunch workshops were recently the focus of an article in the Contra Costa Times. To read the article, click here.

Prudy's work (Polaroid emulsion transfers) was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle as a finalist in design for the Jan. 1, 2006 edition of the Datebook section.

ART FOR LUNCH was recently featured on CNN Headline News. Please click here to see the spot (5.6MB Windows Media Player video).