Taylor Wright Rushing was born in Tacoma, WA. He received his BA at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and went on to work as a professional glassblower in the South Puget Sound, work carpentry on the southern coast of the United Kingdom and play in an old time string band in Austin, Texas. He will receive his Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the spring.
He acted as the first artist-in-residence at Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden in Summerville, Georgia in the summer of 2016 and is currently the artist-in-residence at the Bubbler in Madison’s Central Public Library. His work has been on the covers of Old Time Herald Magazine and Grit City Magazine and he has shown widely in the United States, including at the Todd Art Gallery in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and the Red Bull Art House in Detroit, Michigan. His work will be on display at the Webb Gallery in Waxahatchie, TX in May 2019.