Prusa, born and raised on the south side of Chicago, received her B.S. degree from the University of Illinois. She went on to study painting and received an M.F.A. from Drake University. Known for her contemporary and large scale use of silverpoint, she has been awarded visual arts fellowships from the South Florida Cultural Consortium, the State of Florida (2014, 2008, 2002), SECAC Artist Fellowship (2014, 2006) and the Howard Foundation through Brown University (2007). She was recently awarded the Ubertalli Award for Outstanding Artist in Palm Beach County (2012). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Perez Art Museum – MIami, Museum of Art – Ft. Lauderdale, Hunter Museum of American Art, Spencer Museum of Art, Arkansas Arts Center, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art and Telfair Art Museum, among others. Prusa's work traveled in the Triennial Exhibition of German and American Artists curated by the American Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, exhibited at the Museum for Angewandte Kunst – Frankfurt and at the Museum of Arts and Design. Solo museum exhibitions include the University of Wyoming Museum of Art, the Kohler Arts Center, the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, the Arkansas Arts Center, University of Maine Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art – Jacksonville, Lakatamia Municipalia – Nicosia, Cyprus, and the Polk Museum of Art. She has shown at the DeCordova Museum – Boston, Frist Center for the Arts – Nashville, Evansville Art Museum – Indiana, Museum of Art – Ft. Lauderdale, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art – North Carolina, Telfair Museum of Art – Georgia, Tomio Koyama Gallery – Tokyo, Kentler International Drawing Space – Brooklyn, Grand Rapids Art Museum and the Boca Raton Art Museum in Florida. Prusa was represented by Bernice Steinbaum Gallery (gallery closed summer, 2012), where she has had numerous one-person shows. Her work is featured in magazine and newspaper articles and published in Miami Contemporary Artists, ed., Paul Clemence and Julie Davidow, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2007. Her work is included in Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities, ed., Kardambikis, Kahira and Silver, Encyclopedia Destructica Publishing, 2012. Upcoming, her work is highlighted in the chapter on contemporary metalpoint a comprehensive history of metalpoint by Dorothea Burns; The Luminous Trace: Drawing and Writing Drawing in Metalpoint, Archetype Publications, London, 2012. Recently, Prusa completed a four-month funded Artist in Industry residency at Kohler Company and is producing a large installation of ceramic work involving fiber optics and silverpoint drawing. Prusa shows at Brintz Galleries – Palm Beach, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery – Vancouver, Jenkins Johnson Gallery – San Francisco and New York City, Bluerider Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan, Alan Avery Art Company – Atlanta, and Tinney Contemporary – Nashville. The Art Economist Magazine featured Prusa as "an artist to watch" in their June 2011 issue.