Kaethe Kauffman

 

 

         Kauffman received her MFA in Studio Fine Arts from the University of California, Irvine, having previously studied at Universities in England (University of London.) Yugoslavia (University of Belgrade.) Spain, (Instituto de Bellas Artes) including one year of graduate study at the Instituto Allende (Universidad de Guanajuato) in Mexico. Her paintings, drawings and murals are in many private and corporate collections and have been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Berkeley, San Francisco, Australia, and Europe with a recent one-person exhibit at the CZECH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS in Prague, the Czech Republic.

    Kauffman earned a Ph.D. with a dissertation on The Belief System of the Art Avant-Garde. She is an Associate Professor, having taught Studio Art and Art History for 28 years. She is currently teaching at Chaminade University, Honolulu, both on-line Art History classes and physically-present Studio and Art History classes.

    Dr. Kauffman recently won the ELIZABETH MORSE GENIUS FOUNDATION AWARD and the DR. WU AND ELSIE JECT-KEY MEMORIAL AWARD for her art. She is featured in the national reference books WHOS WHO IN AMERICA, WHOS WHO OF AMERICAN WOMAN, VIDEO DIRECTORY OF BEST AMERICAN PAINTERS, THE CALIFORNIA ART REVIEW, THE INTERNATIONAL WHOS WHO OF INTELLECTUALS, THE WORLD WHOS WHO OF WOMEN, and 2000 OUTSTANDING INTELLECTUALS OF THE 21^ST CENTURY.