Traversing Lines: a Narrative on the American Landscape by Winter Rusiloski on display at the Museum of East Texas now through October 17. An artist reception is September 10 from 5 to 7 p.m. All are welcome!

Aurora's Cloud by Winter Rusiloski

The Museum of East Texas is thrilled to bring Traversing Lines: a Narrative on the American Landscape, an exhibit featuring works by Winter Rusiloski, to our main gallery this fall. Special thanks to Denise Stringer Davis and Angel Fernandez for curating the show.

Winter Rusiloski Bio and Artist Statement

Winter Rusiloski was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and grew up in a rural setting outside of the city. Landscape was always important to her, growing up on acres of land where she frequently explored her family’s property. Rusiloski grew up painting the rural landscapes of Pennsylvania and the northeastern coast. She earned a BFA in Painting and Related Arts-Dance at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and studied abroad in Cortona, Italy with the University of Georgia. She moved to Fort Worth in 2002 to earn an MFA in Painting with a fellowship award at Texas Christian University and studied abroad at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. Rusiloski joined the Baylor University Department of Art and Art History as professor of painting in the fall of 2016 following 12 years of teaching at the college/university level. She splits her time between studios in Terlingua, TX, Fort Worth and Waco.

Winter Rusiloski has exhibited nationally, internationally and is in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States. Her work was recently exhibited at The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth. She was one of 14 living artists in the exhibition New Horizons: The Western Landscape which is explored how artists working today are redefining the visual language of the West. Her painting Anniversary Storms Over Orion’s Ridge is one of the 45 pieces in her exhibition at The Museum of East Texas. Rusiloski is in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States.

Traversing Lines: A Narrative on the American Landscape and includes a variety of works from the last ten years with some works being exhibited for the very first time.  The sizes of the paintings range from 9” x 12” oil on canvas to Troy Epic Narrative, an 8’ tall by 63’ long acrylic on canvas painting created in 2025 outdoors during an artist residency at Troy University in Alabama. Other significant works include Crown 5’ x 7’ oil and collage on canvas with photography from her studies of the southwest border region in Big Bend of Texas, a focal point in her work over the last 8 years. Many of the works in the show were created at her outdoor studio spaces in Terlingua which she shares with her art partner and husband Angel Fernandez. Angel and her six children are often referenced in the abstract landscapes which discuss the sublime, and memory of various landscapes they have traveled including, the New England Coast, Great Lakes region, Glacier National Park in Montana, south and south west landscapes from Alabama through Texas with a vocabulary of mark making, atmospheric spaces and shape. 

Troy Epic Narrative by Winter Rusiloski

To learn more about this artist and her craft, visit https://winter-rusiloski.com/