Rosalind Pace is an award-winning artist and poet who has embraced both creative activitiesher whole life. She uses a variety of papers – silk-screened, hand-painted, mono-printed, hand-inked, rice papers, hand-made papers – as well as randomly cut-up pieces of acrylic on canvaspaintings, to construct vivid, light-filled, evocative collages. Berta Walker says that “colors tellstories, and what Pace does with color- she makes it sing and speak.”Pace came to Truro in 1973 to study at Castle Hill with Budd Hopkins, abstract expressionisttechnique, and then collage. This remains her only formal training, but it was transformational.She returned each summer, began showing her work, teaching collage, teaching Image-Making,developing her aesthetic signature: solid color, free painterly areas, cut and torn edges,calligraphic elements often, spaces that open into other spaces, a play of rectangles.Pace was born in Minneapolis; her early childhood was spent in Washington DC during WorldWar II, where she remembers watching searchlights sweeping across the sky. Pace graduatedfrom Brown University with a degree in American Literature, and received an MA fromUniversity of Michigan. She taught English in Afghanistan for two years, then had a long careeras a poet-in-the schools, raised two sons, and moved to Truro in 1991. She was a member ofthe Group Gallery in Provincetown, worked at and then was director of Long-Point Gallery.Poiesis: Five Decades of Collage, a retrospective of Pace’s work, was curated by Grace Hopkinsfor the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 2024.