ELIZABETH CURREN
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Elizabeth Curren is a book artist, watercolor painter, writer and teacher with degrees in literature from Boston College and in art from the Corcoran College of Art + Design; she received her MA from the Corcoran’s Art and the Book Program in 2013.  She participated in two internships at the Rare Book Room of the Library of Congress; she gave a presentation on invented encyclopedias as part of the Library’s lecture series.  She has written reviews of artists’ books and is a proud member of the Guild of Book Workers, the Washington Rare Book Group, American Print History Association, and Pyramid Atlantic Arts. She is a member of an artists' cooperative gallery where she exhibits her work: the Studio GalleryDC.  Her work is available for sale. 

She has always been interested in illustrated books with movable parts, papermaking and narrative.  She incorporates linoleum block prints, collagraphs, wood block prints, collage, handmade paper and ephemera into her work. Whenever possible, she has found an excuse to travel.  She has taught book arts as an adjunct professor at the Corcoran, as a cooperator at Glen Echo Park, an arts park in Montgomery County, MD, and as a visiting artist for the Montgomery County PTA Grants program.  Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in collections in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Greece and Ireland.     

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