THROUGH FIRE & WATER: SCULPTURES, PAINTINGS, AND DRAWINGS BY RITA KEPNER FROM 1966 - 2026

Opening Reception is free to attend and does not require an rsvp.

About Rita Kepner-

Rita Kepner is a sculptor who loves to draw. She is founder of the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council, listed in Who's Who in American Art, noted in Women Artists in America II, and has exhibited her work in Poland, Hungary, Germany, Canada, Seattle Washington, with the Quimper Art Group and Bruskin Gallery in Port Townsend Washington. 

Her sculpture is on display in public places including: Warsaw Museum, Warsaw Poland, City of Zalaegerszeg, Hungary, Seattle Public Library, Children's Hospital, Seattle City Collection at Seattle Center, Kenmore Public Library, Lowell School, and Washington Mutual Savings Bank in Seattle. She completed works for The US Army Corps of Engineers in Savannah, Georgia and the Cowlitz Indian Nation.Her writings, on art and artists, have been published in Northwest Art, The Arts Magazine, Leonardo Magazine, Poland, Polska Panorama and Seattle Post Intelligencer. Northwest Arts published several articles including her interview with Henry Moore.

She studied a year at Elmira College before earning her B.A. with a Fine Art major, in 1966, at Harpur College, State University of New York. In 1984, Accademia Bedriacense, in Calvatore Italy, selected Rita for an honorary "Diploma Maestro". Since then, she did graduate work at University of Oklahoma, Seattle Pacific University and Western Washington University. Rita earned a "President's Scholarship" to complete a M.A. in Management at City University in 1998.

Rita is also wife and the mother of one son, who recently served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Russia. As disaster reservist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency she has assisted victims after floods, hurricanes, firestorms, tornadoes, earthquakes, the Oklahoma City bombing and the crash of Egyptian Airline Flight 990. For this work and other community involvement, Rita M. Kepner was selected for biographical reference in Marquis Who's Who in the World, Who's Who of American Women,and the Cambridge International Who's Who of Business and Professional Women.