Alison Fox is an artist and educator born in New York City. She holds an MFA in painting from Hunter College and is currently working towards her Masters in Art Therapy at Syracuse University. She has been teaching art for over 20 years to students of different ages, backgrounds and abilities.
Alison began her teaching career as an arts educator at the Church Street School for music and art, a not for profit community school in lower Manhattan. After moving upstate in 2013, she took on a faculty role teaching Art to young adults at the Triform Camphill Community. As the pandemic started Alison transitioned to working more formally in a mental health setting, taking on a therapeutic staff role at the Austen Riggs Center, in Stockbridge MA. There she brought meaningful ways for clients to engage with creativity and mindfulness.
Along with teaching, Alison has an established art career as a painter. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America and ArtNews and is part of the Guggenheim collection.