Discipline: Literature

Liz Kotz

Discipline: Literature
Region: Riverside, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995

Liz Kotz is an author and professor. She attended Littérature Moderne in Paris, earned a B.A. with honors in humanities from Stanford University, earned an M.A. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University, studied film in the graduate department of San Francisco State University, and completed her Ph.D. studies at Columbia University with distinction. She is the author of the books Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art and An Anthology of Chance Operations as well as many essays and poems about art. Kotz has published widely on the work of contemporary artists and currently teaches at UC Riverdale.

Studios

Phi Beta

Liz Kotz worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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