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Elyse Garcia

b. 1999, Austin, TX

Lives and works in Austin, TX

EDUCATION

2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art with a Minor in Arts Management and Administration, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022

Reimagining Healing, Dell Medical School Health Discovery Building, Austin, TX

We’re Done, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Good in Tensions, ICOSA Collective, Austin, TX

Colossal Wait: 2022 Senior Art Exhibition, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX

Welp, This is It, private studio, Austin TX

2021

Fieldwork Projects, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX

A Good Moment, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Aesthetics of Health: Inaugural Student Exhibition, Dell Medical School Health Discovery Building, Austin, TX

2017

Art.Write.Now.DC, Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building, Washington, D.C. 

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National Exhibition, Parsons School of Design, New York, New York

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Regional Exhibition, St. Stephen's Episcopal School, Austin, TX

AWARDS

2021

Tower Award for Outstanding Community-Based Learning Course, University of Texas at Austin Tower Awards for Excellence in volunteerism among students, faculty, and staff, Austin, Texas

2017

National Gold Medal, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, New York, New York

Regional Gold Key, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Austin, Texas

RELATED ART EXPERIENCE

2022

Administrative Assistant, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa TX

Student Intern, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX

Workshop: Cancer Storytelling and Enhancing Empathy in Artists, Health Humanities Consortium 2022 (virtual)

2021

Design Intern, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX

PUBLICATIONS

2022

Barajas, Sebastian, Advanced Printmaking Students showcase work in off-campus exhibition, The Daily Texan, April 21, 2022, University of Texas at Austin

2021

Aesthetics of Health: Art Pedagogy Meets Community Engagement, University of Texas Department of Art and Art History News, May 27, 2021, University of Texas College of Fine Arts

Cancer institute partners with UT-Austin art class for health-related art show, The Daily Texan, October 5, 2021, University of Texas at Austin

2019

2019 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Calendar, The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Nov. 2018

2017

2017 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National Catalog, The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, 2017