Biography
Elisabeth Walden (b. 1987) is an artist, printmaker and ceramicist based in Portland, OR. Her work explores her relationship with her fat, female body, as shaped by contemporary American culture and art history using a variety of painting, printmaking, ceramic, sculptural and experimental mixed-media techniques. Elisabeth has taught printmaking to artists of all ages at the University of New Haven and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT, where she was the Education Coordinator. Her work has been exhibited widely in the US and abroad, including a solo shows at Brown University in 2015 and the Multnomah Arts Center in 2019. She received her BA from Yale University in 2009 and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013.