Profile: “My goal as an artist is to serve mankind at the deepest level of my spiritual development through the expression of painting, writing and public speaking.”
Kristy Bishop, winner of the Gold Medal of Honor for Pastels in national competition and many regional art awards, is the owner of the KRISTY BISHOP STUDIO, 147 Market Street, Saugerties, NY. Founder of Kristy’s Kreative Kids, she has taught over a thousand children and adults since 1977 at her studio and at Ulster County Community College – credit free art courses in the past.
Since 1991, Bishop has facilitated several art shows each year in the Hudson Valley for her students, ages 6 – octogenarian. The 30th Annual Student Art Show was scheduled for June 13, 2020 at the Saugerties Senior Center but had to be canceled due to the Covid-19 virus pandemic. It will be held in June 2021, God willing. Since 1991, different art judges have been chosen every year for awards for the students; although, competition among peers is optional. Over 200 people have attended the receptions when they were held at the Senior Center with less attending smaller venues such as Lox of Bagels, Route 9W, Saugerties Annual Holiday Art Shows for the past eleven years.
Beginning in 1976, Kristy has had more than nine one-woman art shows and has been invited to join numerous juried art shows in the Hudson Valley and beyond. Among those are the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum WAAM, Woodstock, NY, Arts Society of Kingston, NY, the Albany Institute of Art, Albany, NY, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Ma (where she won the Gold Medal) and the Pastel Society of America, NYC among several other venues.
Her artwork is in many collections around the country as a result of being represented in galleries in Tyringham, Massachusetts and the WAAM. Many awards such as Award of Excellence, Award of Recognition and Judges Choice were presented to Bishop from 1989 – 2001 at the annual Twilight Park Artists art shows in Haines Falls, NY.
Currently, one woman art shows for Kristy Bishop are scheduled for July – August 2020 at the Saugerties Public Library, Washington Avenue and October 2020 at the Dutch Ale House, Main Street, Saugerties, NY – pending in concern for the Covid-19 pandemic.
Bishop wrote the column “Kristy”s Kreative Kids” in local newspapers consecutively 1996 – 2012 (Post Star – Lee Publishing Co. and Saugerties Times – Ulster Publishing Co.) Bishop Memoir Excerpts were published in Fort Fairfield’s Sesquicentennial Celebration – It’s Time to Tell our Stories 1858- 2008 Hardbound – Frontier Heritage – Editors: R. Ainsworth and S. Ulman in 2009
Leadership training has been provided by Rhinebeck Toastmasters Club 2008 – 2013 and Bishop served as TM president in 2010-2011 and Ulster County Art Association president 2016 – 2020.
For videos, see: www.dailyfreeman.com search: Kristy Bishop or read articles concerning the artist – visit www.SaugertiesTimes.com and http://i-uv.com/kristy-bishop-my-quest-to-know-god-has-influenced-my-passion-for-art/