Elizabeth Ingraham, Associate Professor of Art
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Elizabeth Ingraham, Associate Professor in Art & Art History, is a sculptor and poet whose work gives form and voice to lived experience through sight, sound and touch. Her life-sized "skins" sculptures, made of materials as diverse as velvet, chintz and neoprene rubber, and designed to be touched and handled by the viewer, explore how expectation, desire and convention form casings which shape one's deepest selves and become so familiar they seem like one's own skin. She is also the author of SKINS, a multimedia theatrical performance directed by Kathryn Moller and with original music by Yukio Tusji, and presented at La MaMa ETC in New York City in 2005.
In 2003, she was the first recipient of the prestigious Thatcher Hoffman Smith Award for Creativity. This biennial prize, open to all fields of creativity, including the sciences and cultural affairs, recognizes a visionary creative work in progress which demonstrates the power of original thought and expression to enrich the world.
She has a BA in Art History from the University of Colorado and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of California Santa Barbara. She also has a JD from the University of Denver, and, prior to her training in sculpture, was an activist lawyer for Native American groups in Alaska and a participant in the radical social change resulting from the federal settlement of their aboriginal land claims.
More information about her work can be found at her website, www.culturalterrain.com.
