Elizabeth Garber

Dr. Elizabeth Garber is a scholar and artist. During the 1970s and early 1980s, she supported herself as a ceramic artist while living a sustainable lifestyle in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. During this time, she earned an MFA in ceramics at the University of Arizona. Her work in both ceramics and photography deals with themes of relationships that we have to images, to words, and to ideas. In 1989, Elizabeth completed a Ph.D. in art education at Ohio State University, focusing her work on feminist art criticism and particularly the work of May Stevens whose series Ordinary/Extraordinary compared the lives of working class and intellectually elite women. Elizabeth’s current research continues feminist themes in art, craft, visual culture and education, often extending into areas of social justice and particularly Mexican and Chicana/o visual culture as well as community art.