Rosalyn Richards is an artist and educator with a background in painting, printmaking, and drawing.  Her work is mainly shaped by observation of nature, satellite photography, cosmology and scientific imagery from biology and particle physics.  Her working process favors improvisation, experimentation and the emotive quality of abstraction.  Richards received an MFA from Yale University School of Art and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. 

Her work is represented in the collections of the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, the Art Institute of Chicago, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, the Ackland Art Museum of the University of North Carolina, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Janet Turner Print Museum, Guangdong Museum of Contemporary Art in China, China Printmaking Museum in Guanlan, the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College,  Samek Art Museum at Bucknell University and Purdue University Galleries, among others.

Rosalyn Richards has held artist residencies at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Ragdale in Illinois, and Women’s Studio Workshop in New York.  She has been a visiting artist and critic at Colby College in Maine, Cornell University, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in China, and the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.  She has taught printmaking, drawing, and design at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.