Beverly Naidus's Page

Biography

Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1953, to two New Yorkers, Beverly Naidus grew up in the Northeast. She received a BA from Carleton College and an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Early recognition in the New York art world offered her the opportunity to exhibit her interactive installations and mixed media work in diverse venues, including mainstream museums, alternative spaces, college galleries and city streets. Inspired by lived experience, topics in her artwork include healing from environmental illness, critiques of consumer culture, moving beyond nuclear nightmares, transforming body hate, overcoming fear of difference, envisioning ecologically sustainable communities and global justice.

Beverly Naidus has produced several artist's books including What Kinda Name is That? and One Size Does Not Fit All. Her art has been discussed in books by Paul Von Blum, Lucy R. Lippard, Suzi Gablik, Lisa Bloom and others, and reviewed in many contemporary journals. Her essays about art for social change have been published in several books and magazines. She is the author of Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame, just released by New Village Press in 2009. She was a finalist for the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant Program and has received numerous grants, including a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in photography.

Her teaching career includes work as an artist/teacher in New York City museums, Carleton College, California State University Long Beach, Goddard College, Hampshire College, and the Institute for Social Ecology. She has guest lectured and led workshops all over North America and in Europe. Beverly has co-created an interdisciplinary arts program with a focus on art for social change for the University of Washington, Tacoma. She lives in the middle of the woods on Vashon Island with her husband and son.

Organization or Company

University of Washington, Tacoma

Title / Profession

Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts (teaching and making art for social change)

Blog or Website

http://www.artsforchange.org

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