Constance E. Richards is a fine art curator, author and editor.As a fine art curator, Constance is director of the Grand Bohemian Gallery in Asheville, NC, and has been a freelance curator for projects with Warren Wilson College's Holden Gallery, the Weizenblatt Gallery at Mars Hill University, and with CareParters/ WNC Bridge Estate Sales Art Exhibitions. She has embarked on the long-term project of curating and creating a catalog raisonné for the work of her late husband, international sculptor and painter Vadim Bora.In the field of journalism she has written and reported for Time Magazine, Time for Kids, LIFE, Fortune, the New York Times, People, Conde Nast Traveler, Reuters, FoxNews.com, Southern Living, Institutional Investor Magazine, American Archaeology, and other publications. For over a decade she was contributing food and arts editor for the regional periodical WNC Magazine (sister publication to Charleston Magazine with Gulfstream Communications.)Constance spent nearly seven years in Russia where she was Moscow bureau chief for LIFE Magazine, and a freelance correspondent and researcher for Time. She began her journalism career in Russia as a production assistant and interpreter for ABC News in Moscow, and is fluent in Russian and German, with a reading comprehension of French.Writing specialties: Features, travel writing, art, food writing, biographical profiles, international business writing re: Russia and Central Europe; expertise in language and culture of Russia, Germany and cultural arts of Cuba.Book credits include "Bloom's Literary Places: St. Petersburg" (Chelsea), (co-authored with Bradley Wordsworth); "Insiders' Guide to North Carolina's Mountains" (Globe Pequot), (co-authored with Kenneth L. Richards); "Artful Asheville - Along the Urban Trail;" "Creative Giftwraps" (Lark Books); "Making Books and Journals" (Lark Books); and "North Carolina Curiosities" 4th Edition, (Globe Pequot).
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