Artist, Teacher , Curious World Citizen, (She/Her)
Elisabeth was born in Germany, raised in the Arizona desert, spent her twenties traveling and living abroad, and is currently living the life of a transplanted Southerner in Raleigh, North Carolina.
When she’s not in the studio creating original photographic based artworks, Elisabeth enjoys surfing and kayaking with her family, teaching art, and curling up with a cozy blanket and a good book.
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Elisabeth earned a BFA in photography from Miami University with a second major in English, literature. She continued her studies with a teaching assistantship in the graduate program at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI and graduated with her MFA in 2006.
While earning her degrees she also studied English literature abroad at Cambridge University, completed two eight-week artist residencies in Ghana, West Africa, a three-month residency in Beijing, China, and won the Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Prize, a $30K dollar grant to complete the documentary work she began in Ghana.
After earning her MFA, she moved to Shanghai, China with her husband where she taught photography workshops, guest lectured at Fudan University during their first annual Women’s Studies Symposium, and exhibited work in the US and in Mainland China.
Elisabeth returned to the States in late 2008, finally settling in Raleigh in 2011 with her husband and two young sons.
Her post-wanderer life took shape with a creative practice rooted in sharing ideas and processes in both the studio and on in-house creative teams. She spent two years on the photography faculty at the Art Institute of Raleigh-Durham, has consistently taught private workshops, and had the pleasure of working on Red Hat’s corporate creative team as a Creative Strategist, writing and producing short branded documentary work and C-level presentations.
In 2017 Elisabeth left the corporate world and began focusing on teaching, creating art, freelance design and creative strategy projects.
Following the “long year at home” (2020 and most of 2021) Elisabeth joined the faculty at Durham Academy where she now teaches Photography (both analogue and digital) and Digital Art and Design at the Upper School. Her solo show We Drink The Sky, featuring photo encaustic artworks made during the pandemic, was exhibited in the Anchorlight gallery January - March of 2022.