2008 Honored Artist

M.C. Poulsen

M.C. Poulsen was greatly inspired by his submersion in the fine arts as young boy when his mother would leave him at the Akron Art Institute while she worked at a nearby coffee shop. At age ten, Poulsen’s father bought a 15,500 acre dude ranch near Cody, Wyoming, where Poulsen took to ranching and outfitting like an old hand. Once he tasted life in the west he never went back to Ohio. “It was like returning to my origin”, he says. Poulsen has participated in museum shows across the country and painted portrait commissions from the Pentagon to the Johns Hopkins Hospital.