Liz Ward (b. Lafayette, Louisiana, 1959) grew up in Houston, Texas and lives and works in San Antonio, Texas and Eagle Harbor, Michigan. She attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, and received a B.F.A cum laude with honors in art from the University of New Mexico (1982). After studying art in Paris, she returned to Houston, where she received an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Houston (1990). Ward’s work is included in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Menil Collection; University of Houston, Sugarland Campus; Blanton Museum of Art; San Antonio Museum of Art; McNay Art Museum; Art Museum of Southeast Texas; Lamar University; Tyler Museum of Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, amongst others. Her work has been exhibited at many of these venues as well as at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Art Museum of South Texas; Galveston Arts Center; Flatbed Press; Weatherspoon Art Museum; and the International Print Center. Ward’s work has been recognized with a Brown Foundation Fellowship for an Artist Residency at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France; two Mid-America Arts Alliance/NEA Fellowships, and the Dozier Travel Award from the Dallas Museum of Art. She has been awarded residencies at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, and Isle Royale National Park in Michigan. Ward is a professor in the Department of Art and Art History, and an Environmental Studies Faculty member, at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Her combined interests in art and the environment have led to interdisciplinary collaborative teaching and research experiences with biologists, poets, and social scientists in Colorado and Costa Rica.
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