Paula Busch grew up in the Bay Area but now lives and works in Chico, a small university community north of Sacramento. She earned her BA in art from U.C. Berkeley where she was introduced to the practice of printmaking. She then went on to earn a MA from the thriving print department at CSU Chico. She worked as an adjunct professor for 30 years at Butte College and is now happily retired and working in her studio full time.

Paula has received a grant from the George Sugarman Foundation, given the City of Chico Mayor’s Award for Achievements in the Arts, participated in the CSU Summer Arts program and has been included in the prestigious Crocker Kingsley Exhibition in Sacramento.

Her work is in the collections of The Encaustic Institute of America, The Turner Print Museum, monca (Museum of Northern California Art, Renown Health, Reno, Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento, Ruths Chris, Del Mar, Odyssey Winery as well as many private collections throughout the US and abroad.