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Polly Kurasch is a contemporary American artist living and working in Pittsfield, MA. Born in 1947 in Washington, DC, she began her multi-disciplined education as a Bennington College dropout in 1964. She went on to get a BA at NYU, a DMD at NJCMD and BFA in Sculpture at Purchase College. Kurasch is a visual artist who works in mediums including paper, fabric, wood, paint, ink, and graphite. While her work is visual and non-moving, she seeks to find and exploit the emotional indicators in aspects of her subject, which, when successful, draw out the viewer’s personal experience with the art.