Three Graces by Lizz Denneau VS26

Lizz Denneau

Elizabeth Denneau is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and art educator residing in the Sonoran Southwest. She obtained her teaching certificate and BFA in Art and Visual Culture Education through the University of Arizona and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a member of the Art21 Educators Institute and works with local community organizers, cultural workers, and colleges to develop practical models of social justice in art education. Her artistic practice involves ornate works that configure themselves into maximalist installations guided by her research into historical systems connected to respectability politics, its adjacency to White Supremacy and capitalism, and the duality of its effectiveness in the survival or dismantling of a people. She is the recipient of the 2024 WESTAF Bipoc Artist Award, MOCA Tucson Nightbloom Artist Grant, and the Arts Foundation of Southern Arizona’s 2024 stART: New Works Grant. She co-founded the Southwest Black Artists Collective and The Projects- art space located in Tucson, AZ. Both organizations serve a mission to bring visibility and support to Black creatives in the Southwest region.