Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton

elizabeth@beholdingtheimage.com        

Curriculum Vitae

2008-Present
University of Florida
Department of Art and Art History


2005-2007
University of Wyoming 
Department of Art

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Winter 2007

2003-2005

Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming

Associate of Art with Honors, Spring 2005

National Women’s Study Association-Women of Color Caucus Student Essay Award, 2008

McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, 2008

McNair Scholars Program, 2006-2007

Presidential Honor Scholarship, 2005-2007

USA Funds Access to Education Scholarship, 2005 -2007

Student Organizations Achievements and Recognition (SOAR)

Award for Service to Associated Student Government, LCCC, 2004

Sage-Trio Project Scholarship Award, LCCC, 2004  

“Through the Lens of Renée Cox: Re-visualizing Personal, Religious, and Art Histories to Situate Black Female Identity in American Culture.”  15^th Annual University of Wyoming McNair Scholars Program Research Conference.  July 2007.  Laramie, WY. 

“The Cultural Significance of Writing in the Art of Faith Ringgold.”  Undergraduate Research Day.  April 2007.  University of Wyoming.  Laramie, WY. 

“The Sum of Her Parts: Pseudoscientific and Artistic Constructions of the African American Woman in the 19^th – 20^th Centuries.”  Martin Luther King Days of Dialogue.  January 2007.  University of Wyoming.  Laramie, Wyoming. 

Student Art League.  Flux Studio.  Laramie, WY. 2007.

Any Given Day (Solo Art Exhibition, Juried Entry). 

ASUW Gallery, University of Wyoming. Laramie Wyoming. 2007.

Annual Student Art Show (Juried). John and Esther Clay Gallery, Laramie County Community College.  Cheyenne, Wyoming. 2003-2004.

College Art Association (CAA)

The Studio Museum in Harlem                      

Americans for the Arts (AFTA)
National Council of Black Studies

Schomberg Society    

Phi Theta Kappa