Executive Director

As a child Kimberly Carmody studied at The River Gallery School with artists Ric and Barbara Campman. She has been making and showing her drawings, paintings and ceramic sculpture her whole life.  She attended The Evergreen State College and in 1994 Kimberly moved to NYC where she studied at The New York Studio School. She earned a Masters in Art Education from Teachers College at Columbia University and taught art in both public and independent schools, hospitals and homeless shelters. Kimberly founded Urban River Arts, a community based non-profit, in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 2009. She relocated to upstate NY in 2019 and worked as an art educator and administrator at The High Meadow School. In September of 2023 Kimberly moved back to Vermont to become the Executive Director of River Gallery School of Art.