KAY KNIGHT CLARKE 


EDUCATION
2007 M.F.A. in visual arts, Mass College of Art 
2005  B.F.A. in painting, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
2004  Residency, VT Studio Center
1963  Ph.D. (ABD), statistics-mathematics, North Carolina State University
1962  M.S., statistics-mathematics, North Carolina State University
1960  B.A. with Honors, English literature-music, University of North Carolina

SOLO EXHIBITS
2021 New Zealand Paintings, Miss Porter's School, Farmington, CT

         Essex Meadows, Essex, CT

2017 Seasons, Essex Meadows, Essex, CT

2015 Essex Library, Essex, CT
2013 Larkin Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2008 Wellfleet Library, Wellfleet, MA
2006 Town and County Club, Hartford, CT
2005 South Wharf Gallery, Nantucket, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS

2023 New Britain Museum of American Art, From the Vault: Postwar to Contemporary Art

         URI Providence, Dance with Orange

         Dartmouth Cultural Center, Nothing Permanent

2021 CT Women Artists, Members' Juried Exhibit, New Britain, CT

2020 New Britain Museum of American Art, Nor'easter 50th Annual, New Britain, CT

         GarveyRita Gallery, Orleans, MA

         Lyme Art Association,  Old Lyme, CT, Birds and Bees,  Animal Kingdom

2019 Essex Art Association, Essex, CT, Space Between, Elected Artists

         Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT, Associate Artists' Exhibit

2018 Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Over the Years, BWG and FAWC

         Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT

         Lyme Academy Juried Alumni  Exhibition,
2015 Reality and Metaphor II, Six Summit Gallery, Westbrook, CT
        Cooper Smith Gallery, Essex, CT
2013 Lyme Academy Juried Alumni Exhibition 
        Art Essex Gallery, Essex, CT
        Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT
2012 Larkin Gallery, Provincetown, MA
        Gallery One, Old Saybrook, CT
2011 Post Office Gallery, North Truro, MA
        Castle Hill Members' Exhibit, Truro, MA
        Gallery One, Old Saybrook, CT
2010 Trustees and Staff, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
         Gallery One, Old Saybrook, CT
2009 National Juried Exhibition, Prince St. Gallery, NY, NY, juror-Susanna Coffey 
         Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 
2008 Lyme Academy Alumni Exhibition, juror-Dr. Eric Zafran, Wadsworth Atheneum
        Joel Janowitz Selects, Arsenal Arts Center, Watertown, MA
2008 National Exhibition, CCAA, Barnstable, MA, juror-Elizabeth Ives Hunter
         DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
         Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
         Eight in '08, Doran Gallery, Boston, MA, curated by Helen Miranda Wilson
         Painting as Presence, A National Exhibition, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT, juror- William Bailey
        79th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, CT Women Artists, New Haven, CT, Juried by Patricia Miranda
2007 Provincetown Art Association Museum, Provincetown, MA
         Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2006-10 Truro Group, Truro, MA
2006-12 Cooley Gallery, All Paintings Great and Small, Old Lyme, CT
2005 Loon Song Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
2005-07 Recent Work, Essex, CT
2004 Emerging Women Artists, Essex, CT
2003-09 Essex Art Association juried exhibits
2002-06 Artists’ Association of Nantucket, juried exhibits
2001-05 Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, juried exhibits, Old Lyme, CT

COLLECTIONS 
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
New Britain Museum of American Art
Guardian Life Insurance Co.
Artists' Association of Nantucket Permanent Collection
Lyme Academy College Permanent Collection
Other private collections

ELECTED ARTIST
2023 Signature Member, National Association of Women Artists and Massachusetts Chapter

2007 Essex Art Association, Essex, CT

2005 Connecticut Women Artists
2002 Artists' Association of Nantucket (oil, pastel, watercolor)

PRESS
Articles about paintings in The Provincetown Banner, Cape Arts Review, ArtScope, Cape Cod News, Nantucket Inquirer & Mirror, Nantucket Independent, Nantucket Island Living. Featured in Business Week, Time, Fortune and other publications as a pioneer among women in corporate management.

OTHER CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
1973-present The Aeroflex Foundation, Trustee
1994-present Goodspeed Musicals, Trustee Emerita
2006-present Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Trustee, Treasurer 
2015-present New Britain Museum of American Art, Trustee, Vice-Chair, Treasurer
2011-present Essex Winter Series, Essex, CT, Trustee, Treasurer

2020-present, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, Trustee, Treasurer


HONORS
Business Hall of Fame, Junior Achievement of Southwestern New England
Executive Women of New Jersey Salute to Policy Makers Award
Distinguished Alumni Award, University of North Carolina
Women ’76 Award for Singular Achievement in Business, Boston
Executive in Residence, Dartmouth, Amos Tuck, Wheaton 
Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi
Who's Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, Dictionary of International Biography and others

PUBLICATIONS
Articles in Harvard Business Review, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, IEEE Transactions of Electronic Computers, regular Marketing Management column for American Banker, and others.

SELECTED PAST CORPORATE DIRECTORSHIPS 
1989-2010 Guardian Life Insurance Company, Lead Director 
1995-2009 The Providence Journal Company, Director
2001-2009 Berkshire Life Insurance Company, Director
1976-1987 McGraw-Hill 

SELECTED PAST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1987-2010 Templeton, Ltd., President
1990-1995 ADVO, Inc., President, Micromarketing Division
1988-1990 McGraw-Hill, Inc., Executive Vice President
1981-1985 CIGNA Corporation, President, CIGNA Securities
1979-1981 Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., Vice President
1978-1979 Arthur D. Little, Vice President
1973-1978 Shawmut Corporation and Shawmut Bank of Boston, Senior Vice President
1960-1973 TTI/Citigroup, Polaroid, Arthur D. Little, Research Triangle Institute

SELECTED PAST NON-PROFIT DIRECTORSHIPS
1990-1999 Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology
1989-1991 Manhattan Theater Club
1988-1991 International Festival for the Arts-NY
1988-1991 Institute for the Future
1985-1999 Hartford Stage Company
1982-88, 08-10 Hartford Art School 
1982-2014 University of Hartford
1980-1986 Amos Tuck Graduate School of Business, Dartmouth
1979-1993 Greater Hartford Arts Council
1976-1979 Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women