KEITH

GARUBBA

ARTIST | PRINTMAKER | TEACHER

Keith Garubba creates spirited abstract visual artworks on paper, glass, and panel to inspire playful contemplation.  Formally trained as a printmaker, he uses graphic techniques to build colorful worlds of pattern.

Garubba was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1987.  He fell in love with storytelling early, surrounded by brothers and friends who were collaborators in comic book and video projects.  Drawing became his voice. At Keystone College he studied visual arts, meeting mentors who inspired his curiosity and gave him a foundation of principles and craft. He graduated from Keystone College as the Outstanding Graduate in 2010. In 2014, he earned his Masters of Fine Arts from The Ohio State University, where his mind was opened to contemporary ways of working and ideas that would fuel work for years.  The artist returned to Pennsylvania that year, where he built his studio and began working in the Lehigh Valley, creating his artwork and teaching art in all contexts and all ages. Garubba was awarded the Arts Ovation Award as Emerging Artist of the Year by the Allentown Arts Commission in 2016; he felt he had a home-base for his art, and a community in which he could grow.

His works are exhibited regularly throughout the US. He holds leadership roles in regional arts organizations, and recently served as President of the Printmakers Society of the Lehigh Valley from 2018 to 2022. Visiting higher education institutions across the country as a visiting artist offering talks and workshops is one of his honors and joys. He is a resident artist at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem, where he holds a studio, participates in community activities, and teaches private lessons. Garubba continues to make work in marbled paper, glass, printmaking, paint, multimedia installations, and interactive performance.