SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY B E T S Y C A I N BIO

Betsy Cain is a multi-media painter living in Savannah, Georgia. She was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on the University of Alabama campus and grew up in Fair field, Alabama. She received both her BFA and MFA degrees from The University of Alabama, and did formative undergradu- ate work at Auburn University and Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

After receiving her MFA, she worked in both Alabama and Georgia’s Artist-in Schools Pro- grams, designing art projects for K-12 students with all levels of abilities. At the culmination of a national year long grant through The Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico, Betsy and her husband David Kaminsky, a photographer, moved to Savannah, Georgia. For the past forty two years she has maintained an independent studio practice in Savannah and has ex- hibited widely in curated shows as well as in galleries in Savannah, Atlanta, and New York. Her work is held in many corporate collections, including Google, Coca-Cola USA, King and Spaulding, Alston Bird, Price Waterhouse and Cooper, and Chemical Bank, NYC.

Her work was recently presented at Future Fair NYC, May2023, with Laney Contemporary Fine Art. This year she curated an exhibition for the members of Telfair Museum’s Friends of African American Art with Savannah State University, Kennedy Fine Art Gallery, Feb-June 2023. Her work will be included in a 2023 summer show at Sandler Hudson Gallery. This fall she has been asked to be a Juror for The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) for their statewide exhibition Gathered: Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists, opening November 2023.

Cain’s work includes paintings, works on paper, and sculptural cut-outs, influenced by the salt marshes, tidal creeks, and barrier islands adjoining her marsh home in Savannah. She is a strong advocate for the protection of Georgia’s vast salt marshes and barrier islands.

In the Savannah arts community, Betsy Cain organized the first sidewalk art festival for SCAD in 1981. She was a founder and sponsor for the Ursrey Lecture Series for the Flannery O’Conner Childhood Home in Savannah and has served on the Cultural Affairs Commission for the City of Savannah as well as the Ossabaw Island Cultural Committee .She has organized groups of artists for in depth visits to Ossabaw Island near Savannah and has curated shows for individual artists as well as exhibitions with various institutions. She has co-founded or participated in collaborative and