Tommie Rush lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee. She earned her BFA at the University of Tennessee and has studied at the Arrowmont School of Crafts. Her work is included in the collections of the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Alabama; the Sheldon Art Museum and Sculpture Garden in Lincoln, Nebraska; and the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., among others. She has recently shown at Blue Spiral in Asheville, North Carolina, Lighthouse Center for the Arts in Tequesta, Florida and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte, North Carolina.
