Gale Brownlow Flax is a retired visual arts professor who grew up in Blue Hill and has recently returned to the Peninsula after living and working elsewhere in the US (California, Virginia) and abroad (UK, Peru, Thailand, Germany).  She trained as a medical illustrator, but her most recent interest is in printmaking and the design and construction of traditional and non-traditional hand-bound books.  She received her BA in Medical Illustration from Case Western Reserve University and her MFA in Visual Studies from Old Dominion University and Norfolk State University.  She taught foundational courses in drawing, design, and art appreciation at the College of the Albemarle (Elizabeth City, NC) and advanced courses in drawing composition, color theory, printmaking, and book arts at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA),

She is an avid reader (thanks in large part to growing up across the the street from the Blue Hill Library) and enjoys long-distance hiking, swimming, kayaking and travel.  Her most recent adventure was walking the length of Spain, 500 miles, on the Camino de Santiago Frances, from St. Jean-Pied-de-Port in France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.  You can often find her out and about with her backpack loaded, training on local BHHT trails.

She looks forward to working with the Board of Directors, the members of the library, and the community to support the library’s mission and especially its programming in support of visual arts.   Gale serves on the Personnel, Development, and Finance Committees.