Discipline: Visual Art

Beth Edwards

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Memphis, TN
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994
Beth Edwards received her B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art and her M.F.A. from Indiana University. She is represented by the David Lusk Gallery in Memphis and the Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Howard and Judith Tullman Collection in Chicago, the Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, and the Tennessee Arts Commission in Nashville. Her work was included three times in New American Paintings and featured on the cover twice. She has been a fellow at MacDowell and Yaddo, and was the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship and an ArtsMemphis Arts Accelerator Grant. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Emmett O'Ryan Award for Artistic Inspiration given by ArtsMemphis.

Studios

Eastman

Beth Edwards worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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