Bio

Ronald "Rusty" Brown is a Canadian artist, musician, writer, designer, and music composer. Originally from Alberta, he now resides in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

From 1981-83 he attended the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, Alberta. Many artists teaching there directly influenced his work, including Ian Baxter&, Wayne Giles, Don Kottman, Sandy Haesaker, Allan Dunning, Kate Ohe, Ron Moppett, and others. In 1982 Rusty assisted on a land drawing project with the artist Bill Vazan.

In 1984 Rusty went to Europe and was influenced by many exhibitions, including the work of Jonathan Borofsky in Hamburg, and Renato Ranaldi in Florence. Both artists included a corner drawing in their exhibitions. Rusty began to experiment with corner paintings and music composition while completing his B.F.A. degree at the University of Lethbridge studying with instructors Lucien Needham, John Clarke, Jeffrey Spalding, and others.

In 1988 Rusty moved to Edmonton, Alberta to complete an Arts Administration program at Grant MacEwan Community College. There he began working on graphic design, layout, and illustration of books and magazines. After working in the Department of Media Services at Athabasca University for several years, he moved to Thunder Bay, Ontario to work as education coordinator at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

For the last ten years he has been working freelance completed many successful design projects for Lakehead University and other organizations. He was president of the board of directors for the Definitely Superior Artist-Run Centre for many years. Rusty has released four independent music CDs. His music is available on itunes and amazon.

Rusty is co-founder of un/speak/able/press; a writers collective that has published five books of poetry by writers from Northwestern Ontario. A collection of Rusty's mini-fictions were recently published in the book Out of Context and the book The Long Poem Registry.