Elizabeth Switzer
Elizabeth Switzer is a hybrid media artist, designer, writer and independent curator who currently resides in Buffalo, NY. She is the former Director of the Rochester Contemporary Art Center and now works as a faculty member in the Department of Fine Art at Villa Maria College and is the Studio Art Galleries and College Art Collection Director at Canisius College. Her interest in art began in childhood, growing up in a working class family in the rural town of Sodus, NY. She received her Master’s of Fine Art from the University at Buffalo in May of 2004, and is a recent graduate of the NYFA MARK program. Recently her painting, sculptural and installation work has been shown in exhibitions in and around The Upstate New York State area, at the Burchfield – Penney Art Center, Studio Hart, Olean Public Library, Community Arts Partnership: Ithaca, and the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, among others, and she was included in the Hallwalls – PUSH Buffalo benefit auction, Buffalo on The Bowery at the Charles Bank Gallery last fall. Her current curatorial project, (re)threads is premiered at the Cedar Arts Center in Corning, NY last April. She’s also runs the Robot Holiday Art Sale and Raffle. For more information, visit crudecrafts.blogspot.com/