She was the photographer for Chicago’s Design Competition for Mixed Income Housing sponsored jointly by the Chicago Housing Authority/National Endowment for the Arts, and exhibited at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Selections from her work on “City 2000” were published by the Comer Foundation in CITY, held by the Detroit Institute of Arts and archived at the University of Illinois. She has directed various exhibitions including for Chicago Artists’ Month. Currently, she is developing an oral history educational component for “View from My Family Home”, and she holds the Academic Manager position in Photography at Columbia College, Chicago. Liz received her MFA in Photography from Columbia College, and her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  

Artist Statement:Two concerns permeate my work; the role of the individual within a broad social, political and historical sweep, and the interactions between place and people. “View From My Family Home” addresses place around the homes of four generations of my family, taking a personal view of a major alteration in the American physical and social landscape and the implications of population migration from a rural to an urbanized environment. The work was engendered by reports that of my parents’ generation, between one-half and one-third of Americans lived on farms, while of my generation, less than 2% do. This project contemplates both the interior and exterior landscape and our responsibility of place both public and private.