Faculty
Elizabeth Alexander
Associate Professor, FT
“As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.” ― bell hooks
Elizabeth Alexander is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in sculptures and installations made using cast paper and domestic materials. Through labored processes separating decorative print from found objects, she unearths elements of human behavior and hidden emotional lives that exist within the walls of our homes. She holds degrees in sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy (MFA), and Massachusetts College of Art (BFA), where she discovered the complex nature of dissecting objects of nostalgia. Alexander’s work has exhibited across the country at institutions including the Museum of Art and Design, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, the Nasher Museum at Duke University, the Currier Museum, and is included in permanent collections at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, AR, Fidelity, and the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC. A selection of her work can be seen here. (http://elizabethalexanderstudio.com)