Around the Corner Art Gallery
447 East Main Street
Montrose, Colorado
81401
970-249-4243
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Hours: Monday to Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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Kathy Urso

Kathryn Urso, born Kathryn White, in Pasadena, Texas, went to school with her mother as teacher and her father as high school principal. With that background, she never had a chance, and after obtaining a BA and MEd, in Biology and Special Education, at the University of Texas, she became......a teacher.....biology, psychology, and special education head teacher in New York City Public School System, for 31 years.

She used a unique approach to teaching biology, encouraging the students to draw the various structures and processes that they needed to learn in order to pass the rigorous NYS Regents' exam. Finally, upon retirement in 200l, she took a year of oil painting and life drawing, then changed to water medium in 2003, after moving to Ridgway, Colorado.

She has earned ribbons in amateur and advanced divisions of local art shows and has shown work in the main gallery of the Ouray Alpine Holiday show. She finds strong motivation in working with her teacher, Linda Nadel, and with her friends, Women Who Watercolor on Wednesdays. Her latest endeavor is in photography, done locally, and during her other passion, travel. Originally the purpose of the photography was to provide subjects for painting, but ultimately taking pics became the end unto itself.

A look at Kathy Urso's work

Uncompahgre Dawn



Intricacy



Are Free



Pink Jazz