Education
2014 MFA in Visual Arts, Purchase College, School of Art + Design, SUNY, Purchase, New York
2010 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
1997 A.B., dual concentration in Visual Arts and Religious Studies, Brown University, Providence,
Rhode Island; Phi Beta Kappa; magna cum laude
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Each Day, Water: A Monument for the Water Protectors of Standing Rock
and Beyond; Art Centro, Poughkeepsie, New York
2015 Metanoia; Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
Public Installations
2017 Plainsong Kico: Part 1; with the Seachange Voyage; People's Waterfront Park; Newburgh, New York
Screenings
2020 The Hoosac Project, with Claire Barliant
2018 At the NYC Premiere (at The Cell) of Howard Meyer's play, Paint Made Flesh
2016 The Force of Stillness: Embodying Meditation in Creative Practice; curated by Amber Bemak,
The Rubin Museum of Art, NYC, New York
2015 GLOVEBOX Film Festival; Boston, Massachusetts
2015 Cinesauna, Wintershack; Brooklyn, New York
Residencies
2018 Anagama Wood-firing Residency, Salem Art Works, Salem, NY
2017 Seachange Floating Artivist Residency (partial resident), Hudson River, New York
2015 VAN/NPN Artist-in-Residence, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
1999 Skidmore College Summer SIX Studio Art Program, Saratoga Springs, New York
Awards
2019, 2023 Contemplative Fellowship, Hemera Foundation
2018 Project Grant to support my exhibition Each Day, Water at Art Centro in Poughkeepsie, NY
NY State Decentralization Arts Grant Program, administered through Arts Mid-Hudson
2017 Tending Space Fellowship Program for Artists, Hemera Foundation
2017 Educator’s Scholarship, Peter’s Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ
2014 Selected for Step Up artist program, 2014, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
MFA project grant, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, New York
Group Exhibitions
2020-22 The Last Library; Ecotopian Library, University of Colorado at Boulder Art Museum, Boulder, CO;
curated by Mary Mattingly; and at Museum London, in London, Ontario, Canada as part of
GardenShip and State
2019 Voices Along the Pipelines: Citizen Art, Media Arts Council, Media, PA
2018-19 Tech Effect, Cornell Museum of Art, Delray Beach, FL
2014 Whistlestop: MFA Thesis Exhibition; The Highline Loft, NYC, New York and the Richard and Dolly
Maass Gallery, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, New York
The Last Brucennial; NYC, New York
2013 In Real Life; Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
2012 Make the Road by Walking; Passage Gallery, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
2011 Survival in a Strange Land; Gallery 1019A, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
Visiting or Presenting Artist
2023 Thinking Through Drawing International Symposium “Drawing Ground,” online and in NYC
2008 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Bibliography
“Elizabeth Phelps Meyer’s “Rough and Ready” Delicate Vessels, a micro-interview with Elaine Sexton,” Tupelo Quarterly, Volume 16, www.tupeloquarterly.com
Lamorte, Tim, “Each Day, Water” Life on the Hudson Blog, October 19, 2018, www.lifeonthehudson.net
Staff writer, “Art Used to Bridge Valley to Water Protectors,” The Poughkeepsie Journal, Friday, October 5, 2018
Staff writer, ”Bring your own water to the Each Day, Water Installation in Poughkeepsie,” Hudson Valley One/ HV1, October 4, 2018
“A Monument for the Water Protectors,” Hudson Valley News, Vol 11 Issue 26, October 3-9, 2018
Sparrow, “Protecting the Protectors,” Chronogram, October, 2018
Sblano, Nicolette, “A Local Artist Shines a Light on This Indigenous-Led Environmental Movement,” Hudson Valley Magazine, September 13, 2018
Interview with Tiokasin Ghosthorse on First Voices Radio, August 28 and September 4 (rebroadcast)
Apar, Bruce, "The Art of Protecting Water," Yorktown News, Bruce the Blog, August 16, 2018
Bemak, Amber, “The Force of Stillness: Curator’s Note,” The Rubin Museum of Art, November 4, and 5, 2016, NYC, NY
Hirsch, Faye, “Color Conversion,” Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2016
Brown, Susan Rand, “Elizabeth Phelps Meyer: Metanoia” Art New England, Jan/Feb 2016, Vol. 7, issue 1
Dunne, Susan, “Spiritual ‘Metanoia’ by Elizabeth Phelps Meyer at Real Art Ways,” Hartford Courant, Dec 28, 2015
Branch, Alex, "Winter Shack," CurCom Update, American Alliance of Museums, March 2015, page 4
Hirsch, Faye, "Elizabeth Phelps Meyer," Whistlestop MFA exhibition catalogue, Purchase College (SUNY) School of Art + Design, Spring 2014
Other Programs of Study
2017 Firing the Anagama, Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, New Jersey
2016 3D Printing & Ceramic Media, Educator’s ArtLab, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
DIY Ceramic 3D Printer, Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, New Jersey
2014-16 Ceramics (wheel throwing), Art Centro, Poughkeepsie, New York
2009 Visual Art, Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, New York
2007 Thangka painting, Tsering School of Art, Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal
2004-06 Poetry, Sarah Lawrence College Writer’s Institute, Bronxville, New York
2002-03 Actor Training Program, William Esper Studios, NYC, New York
Teaching
2014-present Oakwood Friends School, Poughkeepsie, NY
Upper School Art Teacher, grades 9-12: Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Digital Arts
Adviser to Oakword: Literary and Art Magazine
2011-2014 Purchase College, SUNY, School of Art + Design, Purchase, NY
Instructor: Puppets and Performing Objects, 2013-2014
Instructor: Introduction to Drawing, 2012
Teaching Assistant: Sculpture I, 2011
2009-2010 Maryland Institute College of Art
Teaching/ Program Assistant: Senior Thesis in General Fine Arts, Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking
1997-2009 Soundview Preparatory School, Yorktown Heights, NY
Art Department Head; Art teacher, grades 6-12