Kristina Madsen

Kristina Madsen was trained in furni­ture making in 1975 – 79 by British master crafts­man, David Powell, at the Leeds Design Work­shop in East­hamp­ton, MA. She was Artist-in-Resi­dence in the School of Art at the Univer­sity of Tasma­nia, Hobart, Tasma­nia in 1988. Her awards include the New England Foun­da­tion for the Arts Regional Fellow­ship for Visual Artists in 1997; a Fulbright Grant to study wood­carv­ing in Fiji in 1991; and a National Endow­ment for the Arts Crafts­man’s Fellow­ship in 1981. Madsen’s work is included in the perma­nent collec­tions of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Prov­i­dence, RI; Yale Univer­sity Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Fuller Museum of Art, Brock­ton, MA; Smith College Museum of Art, Northamp­ton, MA; Fine Arts Center, North Carolina State Univer­sity, Raleigh, NC; and the National Museum of Amer­i­can Art, Smith­son­ian Insti­tu­tion, Wash­ing­ton, DC.