{"id":149,"date":"2016-06-03T12:31:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T19:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lizshepherd.com\/?page_id=149"},"modified":"2024-08-17T14:05:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:05:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lizshepherd.com\/?page_id=149","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-abaml-2d4ecdf9627bd9609c0f6fd4bc892bdf\">\n.flex_column.av-abaml-2d4ecdf9627bd9609c0f6fd4bc892bdf{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-abaml-2d4ecdf9627bd9609c0f6fd4bc892bdf av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-jvxtytqi-90621ed99e2f3867ffdf04ee65da23da\">\n#top 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class='av-special-heading av-lzymfwuw-665bceb78ee6a760b8cb6458071cb8a1 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote elegant-quote elegant-centered  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  ><span class=\"heading-wrap\">About Liz<\/span><\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-9tm1x-a784413b67f510a288068747669e722c\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-9tm1x-a784413b67f510a288068747669e722c{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-9tm1x-a784413b67f510a288068747669e722c hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-bgma5-0a0e2f7ce99d6cdf03e843bce4bcd8eb '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liz Shepherd is a printmaker and sculptor. She produces large-scale sculptural installations, which often merge her two interests using printmaking to enhance objects made of wood or paper. She also produces small, hand pulled print editions. In the past 20 years she has exhibited in the United States and internationally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her most recent solo show is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonsculptors.com\/\"><strong>Look\/Don&#8217;t Look<\/strong><\/a> at Boston Sculptors Gallery opening August 29, 2024. Other recent solo show include <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonsculptors.com\/artists#\/liz-shepherd\/\"><b>Ungathered<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the Boston Sculptors Gallery, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgetowncollege.edu\/news\/solo-exhibition-liz-shepherd-opens-wilson-gallery-january-16\"><b>Unsettled<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky, 2020. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/50b0eb39e4b054abacd48443\/t\/5b0047bcf950b7644abaf92a\/1526745021384\/Shepherd+Press+Release+final.pdf\"><b><i>The Wait<\/i><\/b><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and <\/span><b>Immigrants<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scuolagrafica.it\/art\/liz-shepherd\/\"><b>SG Gallery<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Venice, Italy. Her work is the permanent collections at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/educators.mfa.org\/chairs-164008\"><b>The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Edinburgh College of Art, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saltcitydozen.com\/2006.html\"><b>Syracuse University<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, The Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, Boston Public Library, The Hanoi (Vietnam) Contemporary Art Center and the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/zuckerman.kennesaw.edu\/collection\/sgci.php\"><b>Bernard Zuckerman Museum of Art<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Kennesaw, Georgia as well as numerous corporate and private collections. Originally from New York City, Shepherd now lives in Boston. She received her MFA in 2006 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, which awarded her the prestigious Traveling Fellowship in 2015. Along with Rebekah Lord Gardiner, she co-owns the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shepherdmaudsleighstudio.com\/\">Shepherd and Maudsleigh Studio<\/a><\/strong> in West Newton, MA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-149","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizshepherd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizshepherd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizshepherd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizshepherd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizshepherd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/lizshepherd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/lizshepherd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizshepherd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}