Featured Artist:
Elizabeth Crisman

We are pleased to feature the collages of Baltimorean Elizabeth Crisman in our Fall 2007 issue. Elizabeth Crisman was born in Fairfax, Virginia, in 1974. She attended Virginia Commonwealth University, where she received a BFA in ceramics in 1998. Upon graduation, she worked at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, WCVE/PBS television in Richmond, VA, and on various film projects. She attended Maryland Institute College of Art with a Graduate Fellowship and received in 2006 an MFA from the Graduate Photography and Digital Image program. Elizabeth has exhibited widely in the Mid-Atlantic region, where she has been a part of various group, juried, and solo exhibitions in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvani, Delaware, and New York. She is a Fellow of the Center for Emerging Visual Artist’s in Philadelphia, PA, and her work will be on exhibit in a group show this fall at Purdue University in Indiana titled "Does Gender Still Matter?" She recently was awarded an individual artist grant from the Maryland State Arts Council and was accepted for an artist's residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2008. Currently, Elizabeth teaches photography and art history at Baltimore area colleges, and she is also the Gallery Coordinator for the Chesapeake Gallery at Harford Community College