Phoebe Adams (born 1953) is an American painter, sculptor, and educator. She is known for her biomorphic artwork. Adams was active in

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for a decade from 1985 to 1995, and has lived in Maine and New Mexico.

Early life and education

Phoebe Adams was born in 1953 in Greenwich, Connecticut. She studied art at Philadelphia College of Art (BFA 1976; now the University of the Arts), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (in 1977), and

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(MFA 1978).

Career

Adams' sculptures and paintings are biomorphic. A lot of her sculpture work is made in bronze, with colors expressed through the

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. Adams' abstract paintings are inspired on her walks in nature. From 1985 until 1995, her paintings and sculptures were regularly exhibited in New York City. From 1989 until 1990, Adams was the 3-D department chair and an assistant professor at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. From 1991 until 2013, she was an associate professor of sculpture at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. In 1998, Adams was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts grant by the

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. In 2020 and 2021, Adams was a MacDowell Fellow in Visual Arts at the artists' residency program. Her work is part of museum collections including the

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, the Woodmere Art Museum, the

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, the

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, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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