Kathy Giuffre

Katherine Giuffre was born and raised in Arkansas, and received a BA from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a professor of sociology at Colorado College, a specialist in the study of social networks in the art world, and the author of Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific. Her research on Pacific artists led to her spending a year living on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands group. Today she lives in Colorado Springs with her husband and two sons.

By Kathy Giuffre

An Afternoon in Summer Awa Press, September 2010