Elizabeth Allen-Cannon

Adjunct Drawing Instructor

Elizabeth Allen-Cannon completed her MFA in Visual Arts at University of Chicago, and her BFA in Illustration with a concentration in History of Art and Visual Culture at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

Working across painting, collage, and artist books, Allen-Cannon explores the amorphous and unstable qualities of femininity, comparisons between women and nature, as well as ancient and modern aspects of landscape. Her work engages the drama between framing device and pictorial space; the real and the abstract.

Elizabeth has participated in residencies at Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, MO), Ox-bow (Saugatuck, MI), and Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY).

Her work has been published in New American Paintings and exhibited at Nationale (Portland, OR), Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center (Chicago, IL), and Carthage College (Kenosha, WI).

In 2015, her artist book “Native Tongues” was acquired by the Artist Book Library at the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) and in 2021, received the Exile Books Exhibitor Prize at Small Press Fair (Fort Lauderdale, FL). Her artist book entitled "Heat, Tropics, Magic, Juice" was selected for an Individual Artist Project Grant by the Florida Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture.

Elizabeth has worked in various administrative capacities at institutions such as the RISD Museum (Providence, RI), Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, MO), The Renaissance Society (Chicago, IL), Orlando Museum of Art (Orlando, FL), and Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach, FL).

In addition to her work as an adjunct at EFSC, Elizabeth has taught at Kansas City Art Institute in the Department of Continuing Education, and at the University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts. She has given lectures on her work at the University of North Florida (Jacksonville, FL) and Eastern Florida State College (Cocoa, FL).