Art Lessons with Liz

Independent Study / Studio Visit — Discussion-based sessions centered around concept development, creative blocks, portfolio development, and expanding individual artistic practices through close engagement with ongoing work. Sessions may also include recommended readings, references to contemporary art and other forms of media, material sourcing guidance, and practical

Sculpture & Fabrication Basics — An introduction to sculpture through material experimentation, including armature building, mold-making, reductive sculpture, assemblage, kinetic elements, surface treatments, and basic construction techniques using materials like wood, plaster, silicone, fabric, and found objects.

Experimental Drawing — Drawing as an open-ended and intuitive process using gesture, repetition, pendulums, chance operations, movement-based exercises, unconventional tools, and other nontraditional approaches to mark-making and composition.

Sharing knowledge feels deeply connected to my desire to be of service to others and to pass on what has been generously shared with me. As a neurodivergent person, I struggled within rigid educational systems and only began truly learning when I encountered more open-ended pedagogical models that made space for experimentation, curiosity, failure, and unconventional ways of thinking. My approach to teaching and art-making is rooted in unexpected connections, radical play, and pushing beyond inherited creative limitations in ways that can crack people open to entirely new possibilities within themselves and their work. I believe art can help us express what escapes language, and I’m passionate about making creative learning more accessible, expansive, and transformative for people who may have never felt fully seen by traditional models of education.

I work across sculpture, video, installation, and experimental media, and my practice is driven by curiosity, material experimentation, and an interest in how performance and identity circulate through contemporary culture. I received my MFA in Art & Technology from California Institute of the Arts, but a huge part of my development has also come from self-directed experimentation, collaboration, internet culture, and learning outside traditional systems. I’m constantly evolving by following unfamiliar materials, technologies, and ideas into new territory, especially when they challenge my existing ways of thinking or making. More and more, I’m interested in creating spaces where technical skill, conceptual rigor, intuition, and play can all exist together.

My teaching style is rooted in non-hierarchical learning and shaped by the conceptually rigorous, theory- and discussion-based environment I encountered at California Institute of the Arts. I see teaching as a mutual process of growth, experimentation, and discovery rather than the transmission of fixed knowledge, and I’m far more interested in helping people cultivate unusual ideas, trust their instincts, and explore unexpected directions than in pursuing technical perfection. In a moment increasingly shaped by AI and automation, I value the imperfect presence of the hand and see art less as a polished end product than as the documentation of a lived process of thinking, feeling, and becoming. I also believe deeply in creating spaces that feel safe, open, and non-evaluative through discussion, meditative exercises, warm-ups, and the shared understanding that there are no bad questions, bad ideas, or failures within the creative process.

Love, people, new experiences, my peers, essays, poems, art, the internet